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Show Brains Win More Games Than Brawn, Notes Scribe i to his left and raced 31 yards for the tying touchdown. X X X X When Ohio State beat Northwestern, North-western, 7-0, Nick Wasylik and Jim McDonald, Buckeye backs, pulled some fast thinking which had the officials up in the air for a few moments. Ohio State had scored and was attempting the extra point. McDonald tried to placckick but the effort was j blocked, and the ball bounded off to the side. Wasylik picked it up and later-aled later-aled to McDonald, who ran 13 yards for the extra point. I By GEOKGE KIKKSKV I'uiled Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Oct. 27 (l'.i:i The lads who can think wast in a pinch, execute "snap" decisions rapidiy are becoming the key men on the nation's gridirons. More and more games in the midwest are hinging on quick thinking at critical moments. Coach Biff Jones of Nebraska offers the Cornhuskers' quarterback, quarter-back, Thurston Phelps, as an outstanding out-standing example. Phelps was thinking even faster than Coach Jones when Nebraska beat Missouri Mis-souri last Saturday, 7-0. X X X X Jones sent in a tackle to tell .Quarterback Phelps what play to call on seeond down alter he was eligible to talk. 'J'he taekle forgot to tell Phelps until after Nebraska had scored. When he did, Phelps said: "That's the play we just scored on.'' In Nebraska's 1-1-9 upset victory over Minnesota,' the C ornhuskers needed some fancy fan-cy field generalsliip. They had just two chances to score and capitalized on both of them. X X X x Minnesota's sluggish early season sea-son play was caused largely by faulty generalship. The Gophers started rolling like an avalanche behind Rudy Gamitro's brilliant quarter-backing in the Michigan game. It is one of Bernie Bier-man's Bier-man's axioms that more football games are won with brains than I with brawn. During a five-year span in which Minnesota has lost only two games, the records show that the Gophers came on to win nearly every close game because of superior su-perior headwork in vital moments. X X X X A third-string quarterback called the plays which enabled Notre Dame to come from behind be-hind and beat Navy, 9-7. Navy was leading, 7-0, when Coach Elmer Layden rushed Wrllard Holer into pilot the Irish at the start of the fourth period. lie called two plays. The first failed to gain, leaving Notre Dame on Navy's 31-! 31-! yard line, third down and ten I to go. On the next play, 5ick McCarthy slithered off Navy's right tackle, veered sharply |