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...John Chase, calling a referee to the bench, said: "If you don't take action, I'm going to withdraw the team." With one minute and 15 seconds left in the final period, and Yale leading Harvard by a decisive 10-3, Yale's Captain Artie Moher and Harvard's Dave Abbott tangled near the net (Yalemen say Abbott started it). Officials waved both players to the penalty box for two minutes for roughing-and failed to escort them. On the way they had words...
...Suddenly Moher prodded Abbott in the ribs with the butt end of his stick. Abbott dropped his stick to punch Moher. Moher knocked him down with the stick, hammered him. With a riot in the making, Coach Chase refused to continue! the game. It took 26 stitches to close a wound in Abbott's cheek. Said Chase: "If it had been on a street corner, it would have been criminal." In collegiate circles these days, it was just hockey, new style...
Kiphuth's only statement was a regret "that the thing had happened," but he postponed any decision regarding Moher or future hockey policy until Eli coach Murray Murdoch returns from the N.C.A.A. tourney in Colorado this week...
Crimson Coach John Chase was quoted Saturday as saying that, "if Moher was my player, I would feel he should be barred from ever playing hockey and from future athletics at Yale." After the game, Murdock told Chase, "I'm sure you know what my recommendation will be," in apologizing for Moher's action...
Meanwhile, the Boston press split on the issue, Traveler writer George Carens claiming that Moher had been hit on the head while down so badly that he was unable to wear a hat the following...