As the varsity hockey team drew up to the door of the Broadmoor Hotel last Wednesday, a group of bogus Indians in headdresses and war paint burst out of the hotel and started to yell and beat their tom toms in greeting to the Crimson's bus. The queen of the tournament with some of her royal court of Colorado College girls followed the Indians and began passing out cowboy hats and candy to the new arrivals. Thus, with the customary hoop and holler, another hockey team was suitably welcomed to the official NCAA hockey tournament.

The Harvard, Michigan, and Clarkson sextets have all been flown to Colorado at the Broadmoor's expense, and they all are perfectly free to avail themselves of any and all of the recreational facilities that this resort offers.

This system has operated for ten years now and has worked out to the mutual satisfaction of both the NCAA and the Broadmoor. The former is happy to have someone finance the tournament in such grand style, and the latter cheerfully picks up the tab in return for all the publicity that this tournament offers.

The question that comes to mind, however, is how can the NCAA allow one of its tournaments to be supported in such a thoroughly professional manner? The answer is simple. The NCAA could not possibly support this tournament in such grandiose fashion. Its officials welcome the guarantee that the event will be held each year in the same place at no charge to them, and they thoroughly appreciate the fact that each team enjoys itself so much at the Broadmoor that it is an added incentive for each team to make the playoffs.

Interesting Back-Scratching

As for the amateur-professional side of the argument, the NCAA can point out that no player actually gets paid for his stay at the Broadmoor, and that consequently the tournament cannot be said to have been professionalized. It is somewhat interesting, however, in these days of Wes Santees and Supreme Court decisions, to see the NCAA scratching backs with professionalism.

It is doubtful if a more pleasant site could have been found for such a tournament. The Broadmoor is not really a resort; it is a pleasure city, and one that is completely self-sufficient. Not very many resorts can offer their guests a hockey rink, a zoo, a polo field, a 27 hole golf course, a bar ensconced in a greenhouse, along with all the other obvious facilities. And above all this towers Pike's Peak, and the Rockies with their magnificent scenery.

The Broadmoor is extraordinarily sports-minded. Besides the NCAA Hockey Tournament, it sponsored the World's Figure Skating Championships this year, and although their losses ran into the thousands of dollars, the sponsors were only too happy to pick up the tab, especially since a CC (Colorado College) boy, David Jenkins, won the crown.

Other events sponsored by the Broadmoor include the Broadmoor invitation men's and women's golf and tennis tournaments, the Pike's Peak or bust rodeo, and the Broadmoor ice revue.

The Extravagant Penrose

The founder of the Broadmoor, Spec Penrose, typifies the somewhat extravagant manner that the resort exudes. Penrose came west from Philadelphia in 1891 and parlayed $150 dollars into a fortune through his participation in the Cripple Creek gold boom. Penrose then practically took over the city of Colorado Springs. In 1918, however, when the management of the Antlers Hotel asked him not to shoot off his gun in their bar, Spec angrily stalked out and started building his own hotel, where he could "shoot his gun off any time he pleased." The result was the Broadmoor.

In many ways, the Broadmoor is the country club, the social and athletic center, and the chief attraction of Colorado Springs. Oil and cattle men from all over the west eventually come to stay at the hotel and mingle with the "society" of the Springs.

The teams at this tournament are not really staying at Colorado Springs. They are staying at the Broadmoor. Very few of the players have travelled the three miles from the hotel to the Springs, but if any of them should feel such a whim, there are cadillac limousines waiting just outside the door to take them wherever they wish.

Few of the players, however, wish to go into town, for the town usually comes out to them. One of this tournament's chief attractions is that half of CC's enrollment is female. This half usually ends up out at the Broadmoor during the weekend. The Queen of the Tournament (this year Pauline Beck) has the responsibility of picking 50 other girls from CC to serve as her court. This group then has the responsibility of entertaining the visiting teams at a reception given for them, and in general of making themselves available for the visiting players' entertainment.

"Warm" Welcome