Young Kano?

Confirming - is this a pic of a young Kano?
http://judotradicionalgoshinjutsukan.blogspot.com/2008/08/jigoro-kano-e-o-jud.html?m=1

The one in the white short sleeved and pants keikogi...

meaning the only one shown in the cropped photo, wrapped around a big cudgel?

Yes, that is him. College age, with some of his college aged buds.

I dredged that up some years ago in the old forum and it led on a long series of entries on Kano shihan's college year history. There is no definitive explanation of the photo but it is a very enticing view into a part of his life that is not at all well recorded.

Yes, and thank you sir!