Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-02
Aspiiriins ADDED
To Training Diet
OF Beaten Lions
Pittsburgh Steelers
Hand 7-to-0 Defeat
to Detroit Eleven
By LEWIS II. WALTER

BY LEWIS II. WALTER
PITTSBURGH. Sept. aspirin
was added 10 the Detroit Lions
training table diet this morning
as a result Of the TO defeat the
Pittsburgh Steelers smacked on
them in their exhibition game at
Forbes Field yesterday.
In an effort to avoid retaining
the aspirin as standard equipment
for the league campaign, which
opens in two weeks. Coach Bill
Edwards prescribed more work
plenty Of it-and perhaps some
new players for the football
squad which will arrive home
today TO square off for another
test. That's the Varsity-Freshman
battle at u. of D. Stadium Thurs
day night.
Edwards filed part of his own
prescription today by signing John
Jett. 6-foot 4-inch end from Wake
Forest College. 1t hardly needs
10 be mentioned that Johns nick
name is Gas" Jett was mem
Der of the New York Yankees.
the American League club which
just folded for lack of folding
money.
NEITHER OPENS UP
Whether Gas" could have done
the Lions any good yesterday had
he been able to go out and really
turn it on is doubtful, for the
Ilistless Lions just didn't have the
drive against Bert Bells reorgan-
lied team.
The Derroiters blew three scor-
ing chances. while the Steelers
cashed on their one chance before
the 10,917 shirt-sleeved fans, who
stood the 90-degree heat and
intense humidity much easier than
the quickly-tiring players.
Chief cause of the Lions head
aches today is the memory of the
one sustained march of the game,
the Steelers' 77-yard drive to the
goal line in the third period. This
payoff assault was climaxed with
a 41-yard passing play on which
tailback Johnny Noppenburg, re-
cruit from Miami u, pitched down
the sidelines to the veteran wing
back, Jay Arnold, on the 10-yardI
line.
MISS TWO PLACEMENTS
Detroit's Whizzer White knocked
Arnold down on the 7-yard line
but the Steeler star rolled over,
bounced up on the a and ran
across for the touchdown, to
which guard Jack Sanders added
the extra point from placement.
Whizzer White and Chuck Han
neman Of Detroit missed place
ment attempts from the 80 and
l9-yard lines in the second period,
but the Lions big bid came to an
end on the Steeler 8-yard line in
the third period when halfback
Billy Jefferson's last savage
smash at the Steelers was halted
just one foot short of first down.
With Detroit trailing, halfbackI
Lloyd Cardwell had given Detroit
position for the threatening march
when he grabbed a Pitt pass and
returned it Is yards to the Steeler
as. With Jefferson passing to end
Maurie Britt and Looping around
the ends. the Lions moved up TO
the Is, where they stalled until
jefferson made his last and not
quite sufficient dash around his
right end 10 the S-yard mark.
STEELERS SUPERIOR
Although the Steelers had only
a slight edge on the statistics,
they earned the ball game with
superior line play which halted
almost all Detroit rushing at
ltempts and enabled the Pitts
burghers to retain possession of
the ball most of the time.
The Steelers held field position
almost the entire first half as the
result Of Noppenburg's return Of
the opening kickoff to the Pitt
44-yard line, while the line, led
by big Dick Bassi and John
Schiechl. former Santa Clara
center, checked the Lions so effec-
lively that IL was not until the
middle Of the second period that
a Detroit back could make gain
of more than four yards. Then it
took a lo-yard pass from Whizzer
White TO Bill Callihan TO crack
the ice, In the last quarter De-
troit held the ball for only six
plays
The Whizzcr was tho one vet
eran among the Detroit ball
carriers who looked himself, al
though Paul (June) Moore. block
ing back. and tho rookie jefferson,
from Mississippi State, did all
that was expected
3S LIONS IN GAME
Edwards threw 50 of his men
into the game. which was sched-
Iuled 10 test the players before
the league campaign is opened
with Green Bay September Ia
Although the Lions new coach
was disappointed at the lack OF
drive in many OF the older play.
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