For the second year in a row, the weather refused to cooperate.

• The night before the game, a violent rainstorm hit the Motor City, pouring rivers of water over Titan Stadium on the campus of the University of De­troit. The rain stopped just before a snowstorm hit before noon.
• The conditions limited the crowd to 15,000, 9,000 short of capacity.
• Presnell: It was an awful day, I remember. The field was muddy, and it was bitingly cold and windy. Then there was a snowstorm. They had the field covered before the game, but by the time it was half over, the mud was frozen and there were about three inches of snow on top of it.
• A wet track would seem to favor the Giants, who outweighed the Lions 10 lb per man. However, the outcome really hinged on which team could execute its aerial attack better in trying conditions.

 
Titan Stadium, University of Detroit

• Quarter 1
  Strong kicked off, and Ernie Caddel returned it 15y before being flattened in the mud at the 39. To the surprise of the invaders, the Detroiters tried a pass on the first play, but Presnell's toss fell incomplete. Undaunted, Glenn connect­ed with Frank Christensen for a gain of 25y. Scarcely had the Giants recover­ed from this shock than FB Ace Gutowski fired a long pass intended for E Ed Klewicki, but the ball hit Danowski and squirted high in the air. Klewicki reached out and gathered it in to make it first-and-goal on the eight.
  Presnell gained three off tackle. Then, on a full spinner play, Gutowsky moved with ease through a gaping hole in the center of the line while the befuddled Giants sought in vain to find out who had the ball. Presnell booted the point to make it 7-0.
  The Giants fought right back. Richards returned the kickoff 25y. Then he tore off 11 more. When Danowski hit Goodwin for 13, the visitors were down on the Detroit 23. But the Lions dug in and forced a 34y field goal try by Strong that sailed wide.
  But the Giants were back in business almost immediately when Bill Morgan recovered a fumble on the 21. But the visitors could gain only 8y on four tries to turn over the ball.
  After New York got the pigskin back on a punt at their 31, Strong reeled off 13 off left tackle. But Christensen picked off Danowski's pass and dashed 30y to the enemy 46.
  After two line thrusts by Clark and Caddel yielded 6y, Dutch broke through the center of the line; then, when the secondary converged on him, he cut back sharply to his right, and, behind smooth interference, completed a 40y jaunt around and through the puddles to the end zone. Clark missed the PAT to keep the score at 13-0. This was not a good day to fall two touchdowns behind.
• Quarter 2
  The Lions plastered Goodwin after he caught a pass, sending him to the side­lines with two broken ribs. That made the Giants' challenge even greater. The Lions appeared to have a third touchdown tucked away after Harry Ebding recovered a blocked NY punt and raced 35y. But 3y short of the goal line, he fumbled, and the ball bounded out of the end zone for a touchback.
  Toward the close of the period, the Giants launched a march that started with a 17y pass from Danowski to Walter Singer. With Richards doing the bulk of the line smashing, the New Yorkers carried the ball to the four. But once again the blue-shirted defenders rose up and took possession on downs.
• Quarter 3
  Grimly, the Giants fought back and threatened to make a real battle of it when one of their few properly executed passes hit its mark. Danowski flipped a 12y toss across the field to Strong, who made a spectacular one-handed catch on the 30 and outran the defenders down the sideline to pay dirt. Ken split the uprights to make it 13-7.
• Quarter 4
  The East champions desperately strove to score again, but twice their efforts were thwarted. Finally, with the game hanging in the balance, the Giants de­cided to punt from their own 10. Under a heavy rush, Danowski kicked the ball into one of his own men, George Christensen falling on the ball at the 26. Five line thrusts, one on a spinner by Buddy Parker (future Detroit coach) good for 12y, brought the ball to the one. The Giants, braced for a frontal assault, swarm­ed Gutowsky as he lowered his shoulders into the center of the line. But Ace didn't have the ball; Caddel carried it around left end to score untouched. Clark's kick moved the score to 20-7.
  To all intents and purposes, the game was over, but the Lions removed all doubt shortly afterwards. With the Giants in possession at their 32, Danow­ski had no choice but to put the ball in the air. However, Parker snared it at the 45 and sloshed to the 10. Following Caddel's 4y gain through the line, Parker made two, then the final four off tackle. Parker missed the PAT try, and the game ended shortly afterwards.

The statistics reflected the final score of 26-7.

• Detroit registered 13 first downs to eight for New York.
• The Lions outgained the Giants on the ground, 235-106.
• The visitors completed only four of 13 passes while Detroit completed two passes, both on the initial possession, in just five attempts.

• After $9,452 in expenses were deducted, the league would take 10% of the net.
• Another 10% went to the Brooklyn and Green Bay teams, the second place finishers in the two divisions.
• The Detroit and New York clubs earned 15% of $3,603.
• Of the player money, the Lions received 60%, which was $7,207 or $313 for each of the 23 players. The Giants took in $4,804 or $200 for each of the 24 squadmen.
• Both those shares were over $200 short of the $621 and $414 each Giant and Bear took home in '34.

 
Players from the 1935 Detroit Lions at a 25 year reunion