An historic annual hockey match ended in a pub brawl after a student dressed as a traffic cone hurled a chair off a pub balcony.
Players were celebrating after matches between Oxford and Cambridge last month when a student in fancy dress picked up the chair and threw it off the upper floor at The Four Candles in Oxford, The Telegraph reported.
An Oxford men’s player went to A&E and needed stitches after being struck in the head while a Cambridge women’s player suffered minor injuries to her face, the paper said.
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The individual who threw the chair has been identified from the pub’s CCTV.
A spokesman for The Four Candles said: “Wetherspoon are aware of the incident. Members of hockey teams from both Oxford and Cambridge Universities were using The Four Candles at the time after what we believe was a hockey tournament earlier in the day.
“The individual who threw the chair was identified from the pub’s CCTV coverage. We understand that he was from Oxford University and that his name is now known by the university authorities so the appropriate action can be taken.”
The spokesman added the company was not aware of anyone being injured.
The chair-thrower has been suspended pending an internal investigation by Oxford University Hockey Club, according to Varsity, Cambridge’s student newspaper,
Cambridge University Hockey Club is also holding an internal investigation, said The Telegraph.
Oxford University has been approached for comment.
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