Word: copse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wires hummed and pulses ran high last night as today's epic alley struggle between the Campus Cops and Harvard "Yahd" police drew near. . . .
In a sensational uphill finish last night, Harvard Yard Cops nosed out the Yale Campus police by a 1686-1645 score, with Captain George De-Pinto's brilliant last string of 149 adding the points necessary for a Crimson victory.
Although the Crimson squad was well supported by a sizable audience, the alleymen were immediately thrown into a pandemonium of sorrow. Discouraged mutterings, expressions of disgust with the whole match, and general sadness prevailed in the Harvard ranks, for all the Yard cops had taken their turns. But George DePinto...
Captain George DePinto, of the Yard cops' bowling team, interviewed early this morning, expressed every confidence in the ability of his team to beat Yale's Campus cop bowlers.
Yard cops will get their first taste of Harvard-Yale competition on Thursday when, assisted by telegraph, they will attempt to literally bowl an Eli all-flatfoot team off their feet.