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After a tough weekend in Minnesota, the Crimson travels to Colorado Springs to meet Colorado College, another Midwestern school that has adopted what Eastern colleges consider to be the right approach to hockey. The teams will clash in the famous Broadmoor Rink, at the foot of Pikes Peak...
From the start, the big (6 ft., 190 lbs.), crew-cropped junior from Ohio State approached last week's 59th U.S. Amateur at the Broadmoor Golf Club in Colorado Springs as though it were just a casual round with his buddies back home in Columbus. Jack Nicklaus, 19, joked with opponents and officials alike, was undaunted by the tricky greens of the 7,010-yd. course hacked out of the eastern slope of the Rampart Range, 6,500 ft. above sea level. Because of the backdrop of jagged peaks, some level greens seemed to slope uphill, some uphill greens...
Some eight months ago, the varsity hockey team was sitting around the spacious dinner table at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs. They had just lost a 2-1 heartbreaker to Clarkson in double overtime to finish last in the NCAA hockey tournament. "If we had had a harder schedule this year," the tenor of conversation ran, "we wouldn't have lost this game. Something has to be done...
...virtue of the Broadmoor and the tournament, Colorado Springs has developed into the hub of NCAA hockey. Every year, various meetings of NCAA officials and of the American Hockey Coaches Association are held and new rules and regulations passed. The Broadmoor has also donated a Spencer Penrose Trophy for the "Coach of the Year." Weiland won this award in 1955 when the Crimson, headed by Bill Cleary, went to the NCAA to finish in third place...
Thus has a commercial hotel developed into the center of amateur hockey. Critics of the system may scoff at such "amateurism," but the NCAA doesn't mind, the Broadmoor gets its publicity, and a good time is had by all.The Broadmoor Ice Palace...