"This is, like, the best thing that's ever happened to the House," remarked Pforzheimer resident Kamil E. Redmond '00, also vice president of the Undergraduate Council, at the end of the event.

Setting the Stage

Residents from Adams and Pforzheimer met on Friday afternoon to decide the format for the battle and finalize the "spoils" of war.

The group decided that the battle would consist of a football game, a tug-of-war and a musical theater presentation.

A Pforzheimer win, it was agreed, would mean its residents would gain the right to eat in Adams House for a year and that Adams would relinquish its gong for that period. If Adams won, Pforzheimer agreed to sacrifice the use of the "Pf" at the beginning of the House's name.

Representatives from Adams admitted, however, that they conceded some of the events they had originally hoped to include--like croquet, Frisbee games, poetry reading and port drinking--and settled for a compromise.

"So, I gave up on croquet," said Adams House Committee Co-Chair Jennifer J. Hoffpauir '00. "Pfo-Ho didn't know how to play it anyway--they're so uncultured," she joked.

But those concessions took a tax on Adams early on the in the contest, as it struggled to match Pforzheimer's prowess on the field.