Fungus, a better answer to your question: I have looked at making a search function for the photos on the site. Basically, all the photos have the names of the players in them when you hover the mouse above the pic to get the caption. So theoretically, the most laborious part is already done.
The next step is writing a php script to search these alt tags and return results, that bit is way beyond my technical expertise, but I still have it on the "to do" list and hopefully one day it will be in place. Just don't expect it anytime soon!