The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-08
Ny JACK GUENTHER

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 United Press Stan CoFrespondent)
 New York, Oct. s-(UP)-The stories of the Cinderella men of sport are legion but you can leaf through every record book in all the libraries and you'll find no prece- dent for the feat Of the baldins newcomer to big time football se- lected today as the United Press Coach of the Week"
 His name Is Paul Brown and al' ready that name has been stamped in OhioS State history along With those of such gridircn imn1ortalS as Chick Harley, Cookie Cunningham and Wesley Fesler. But where it took his predecessors years to achieve their fame, Brown has won his in just 12 days.
 At 8, Paul Brown is the young" estd coach in the Western Confer. ence. Just nine months ago he was as anonymous in national football circles as the 1880 All-America. He was well known in his own baih- wick as the Miracle Man of Mas sillon," where he had lost only one game of GO played in i've years, bv Massillon was just Q high school.
 The climb from c high school h a college the likes of Ohio State ! almost impossible. Few modern coaches bridged the gap with single leap-Bob zuppke, who wen' from Oak Park, H., to uniyerSit! of Illinois, and Abe Kirwan, whG stepped from Manuel high In Louis- vile to University of Kentucky, are two who did. Brown has done even better.
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 His first game pitted Ohio State against Missouri and State barely won, GO. In Columbus the downs town coaching society went into ses- sion and decided to withhold its verdict. It was just aS well be- cause last week the Buckeyes made good-they crushed Southern Call. fornia, 33-0.
 This was the worst beating the Trojans had absorbed since they first climbed to football prominencC almost two decades ago and it was one of the most pertinent develops ments of footballs second big week. end. How did this Johnny.come- lately do it? Well, the answer A fairly simple. Brown uses neither black magic nor mirTors-juSt plain common sense.
 First of all, Brown B . stickler for condition. fie believes every man on his squad should be geared for 60 minutes of football and that e coach should never have to sub. stitute merely because players are tired. And he stresses one quality above all others-before any boy can play for Brown he must prove he likes to knock other boys oti their feet.
 There Is no Brown system" OK. cept in the development of players. Even before he obtained the job at Ohio, the Massillon mentor visited hisl fellow high school coaches and asked them to slant their material to State In the event he got the job. He intends to choose the best 36 players each year and train them daily in his basic ideas 50 that each autumn he will have 80 sophomores ready to roll.
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 Brown stresses unit play. Paul Bixler handles ends and wlngbacks; Carroll Widdoes the blocking backs and fulls: Hugh McGranahan the guards and centers; Fritz Mackey the tackles and Edward Blickle the reserves. Brown puts the pieces to- gether Into 6 boxed variation of the single wing. There Is nothing un- usual in his style: 1t accents execu- ton Of fundamentals and condition.
 The new Ohio State coach doesn't believe in mass scrimmaging. He thinks 1t results in too many inc juries. Like Carl snavely of Cornell, he relies heavily on motion pictures of his games during lectures to his teams. He is Q good handler of men and popular with his charges. He leans to inspirational sIogans--. many of which are tackled up in the dressing room.
 Brown has gone in for lighter men than Ohio State has employed in the past. He attended State hiIn- self but weighed only 146 pounds and was not given . chance to play. So he quit and transferred to Miami U. where he starred as quarterback for two years. He was graduated in 1880. He used the ''lean and hum gry" type of boys in his first year at Severn academy and won the