Robert Lee Gober (1895-1971) is on the far left in the photograph below, holding the basketball. He is my wife's great grandfather. Benton is the County Seat for Scott County, in Southeastern Missouri.
Born in 1895, Robert Lee Gober would have been 18 in 1913. We know as an adult he was 6'4" tall, though we do not know if he had stopped growing by the time of this photograph. I don't know the identities of any of the other young men, but I was curious how much they varied in height. Let's assume he was 6'4" tall. Can we estimate the height of the shortest teammate? Definitely.
Examining the photograph in my photo-editor, RL Gober is 1,775 pixels in height, and the shortest teammate is 1,515. (I measured from the top of the head to the bottom of the foot, choosing the back foot for both individuals)
76 inches / 1775 pixels = X inches / 1,515 pixels
Solving for X, he is 64.87 inches tall. Or 5'5. Almost a full foot shorter than Robert.
Naturally, there is some room for error in how I calculated the pixels.
(You didn't realize algebra would come in handy for genealogy, did you?)
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