Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colorado Springs itself does not benefit particularly from this tournament, for the town offers little that the hotel does not. A few visitors, who cannot get into the Broadmoor, usually end up in one of the town's hotels, but then again, it is hard to fill all of the Broadmoor's 450 rooms...
...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...
...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...
While all this is indeed enjoyable for the players off the ice, there is one rub to Broadmoor, or rather to Colorado Springs. The city itself is almost 7000 feet above sea level, and the oxygen content of the air is considerably lower than at sea level. This has no effect on CC teams as they are used to it, but eastern sextets have often found that they are far more tired in the third period than they had been throughout the season. This year Crimson Coach Cooney Weiland decided not to bring oxygen along on the trip as other...
...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...