Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Earlier in the day Bingham had endorsed the action of Coach Chase in removing his Crimson team from the ice. Dave Abbot, a Varsity wingman, had received a bad head wound from the stick of Eli captain Artie Moher. Chase fearing a riot had refused to allow his team back on the rink...
Harvard's hockey team did not leave the ice Wednesday night because the teams had been fighting. Coach Johnny Chase called his men off to prevent a wholesale riot among the large crowd at the New Haven arena...
...fight with Moher had been in the offing all evening. Eventually one particularly bitter scrimmage in front of the Yale cage broke into fisticuffs, whereupon the tardy Messrs. McDonell and Crovat penalized both players. But contrary to general practice, they failed to escort them from the ice, and fighting broke out again when Moher replied to a harmless remark from Abbot by hitting him with his stick...
Abbot dropped his weapon and started swinging, but fell in the process. While he was rising from the ice, Moher hit him in the face with the heel of his stick. Abbot was removed to the hospital, and Chase called the game, for a riot was imminent. Subsequently, doctors put 26 stitches in Abbot's lip and check...
Abbot suffered facial injuries in his set-to with Moher and was taken to New Haven hospital for treatment. He was bleeding freely from the mouth where he was struck by Moher's stick in a wild scuffle after both players had been expelled for fighting on the ice...