Soft words of consolation are waiting for the first Crimson skater who is penalized during the NCAA Tournament in Colorado Springs.

The sympathizer will be the town's most enthusiastic hockey fan, Mrs. Spencer Penrose, eighty-six-year-old owner of the Broadmoor Hotel, who hasn't missed a Championship game since she inaugurated the tournament in the Broadmoor Ice Palace in 1948. She has her special seat right beside the penalty box and usually makes it a point to meet every player waiting out the two-minute interval.

Ever since her late husband changed the Broadmoor Palace from a horse-track into an ice rink in 1937 when the horse shows didn't show a profit, Mrs. Penrose has been earning name as the "Mother of Colorado Hockey," and has even instigated a Pee-Wee League and hockey school to develop future stars for Colorado College, a perennial ice power in the West.

Mrs. Penrose is also the reason the national championship tourney has never left its original site, despite occasional bids each year. Regardless of the Tourney's outcome, every player in the four games is guaranteed a royal victor's treatment--and it's all compliments of the Broadmoor Hotel.

Colorado's greatest hockey supporter sees to it that each participant is given the full run of the Hotel, with only the coach's restrictions to curtail his privileges. This could include the Broadmoor's three swimming pools, two golf courses, six tennis courts, its numerous stables, a museum and zoo, and its several restaurants and night clubs, in addition to the several special events planned for the hockey Tourney.

Withn an entire wing of the Hotel being allotted to the four championship team, Thayer Tutt, a Broadmoor spokesman, admitted last week that the Tourney's gate receipts usually do not cover the Hotel's expenses. Last year, he said, the Broadmoor needed $5,400 to cover the deficit.

The three-day Tournament, which many consider the outstanding event of Colorado Springs' season, ends Saturday night with the Victory Dance at the Hotel following the final game. And for the occasion, special sororities of nearby Colorado College are invited to celebrate with the winners--and the losers.