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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...
...even if one chalks up the question of officiating to Bushnell's bad choice of officials, the Abbot-Moher incident cannot be whitewashed so easily...
...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...
...refereeing cannot absolve Captain Art Moher from his incredible display of had sportsmanship. However, it goes without saying that Harvard-Yale hockey relations should not be affected by the Yale captain's detestable action...