• Quarter 2
  Hutson tried to play but lasted only a few minutes before limping off.
  Green Bay finally gained some momentum when Tiny Engelbretsen (who at 238lb was anything but tiny) intercepted Leeman's partially tipped pass near midfield. After two rushes by Andy Uram to the 40, Herber floated a pass down the middle just beyond Gildea's reach to Carl Mulleneaux standing on the one. Carl turned and walked under the crossbar. Engelbretsen's kicked the PAT. Giants 9 Packers 7
  The Giants quickly boosted their lead back to nine after Hein recovered a fumble at midfield. Leemans made a first down on the GB 40, then passed 20y to Len "Feets" Barnum. Per­haps because a rookie who caught only three passes all season was startled to receive one in the title game, Barnum fumbled the ball out of bounds on the 22 when hit hard by Herber. The official nearest the play ruled the pass incomplete. But head linesman Larry Conover overturned the call and gave the Giants the first down. The Packers stormed and raved to the officials that the receiver never had control of the ball–to no avail, of course.
  Curly Lambeau later asked for films of the title game, but the reel did not include a shot of the highly disputed play where Herber's pass to Barnum was ruled complete.
  When play resumed, Barnum cracked tackle for 2y. Danowski then launched an aerial to another rookie, Charles "Hap" Barnard in the end zone. With the catch, Barnard doubled his receptions for the year. Giants 16 Packers 7
  Taking the kickoff on the 20, the Packers required only seven plays to get into the end zone again. Isbell threw a flat pass to the weak side to Layland Becker who took it on the 30 and raced down the sideline before Soar roared over to push him out on the 17 after a gain of 66y. After Cecil gained eight on a fake reverse, Hinkle ran the ball five straight times, finally bucking over from inside the one to pull within two after Tiny's true PAT kick. Giants 16 Packers 14
  Near the end of the period, a kick in the cheekbone gave Hein a concussion that left him with a broken nose and temporarily bereft of his memory. He was carried off the field for the first time in his pro career. The same fate befell Dell Isola during the first half as well. Also, Le­land Shaffer continued to play despite a broken bone in his leg.
  

• Quarter 3
  Green Bay's Joe Laws ran the kickoff back to the 32. Hinkle gained 10 before Monnett ran off tackle and swerved outside for 33. In three plays, the Packers were at the 14. Three more snaps moved the ball to the five where they faced 4th-and-one. In a decision that would be sec­ond-guessed afterwards, Lambeau settled for a 15y field goal by Engebretsen to take the lead by a point. Packers 17 Giants 16
  On the NY sideline, Gildea slumped even lower. All I could think to myself was about that missed kick. I thought it would cost us the championship.
  Owen had used his players in two separate units during the season to wear down the ene­my. But behind with injuries piling up, he picked his best 11 able bodies and sent them out to regain the lead. And that's exactly what they did.
  Soar recalled what happened after the Packers took the lead. Steve took me out of the game, and he said, "I want you to go back in again. You call the plays and don't call anybody's plays but your own. You carry the ball every goddamned time." Well, they hit me with everything except the stands, and that was because they couldn't move the stands. ... It seemed like six years before the clock ran out. ... I think that game was the biggest thrill as far as football is concerned. [Soar went on to a 22-year career as an American League umpire (1950-1971). He worked first base for Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series.]
  Soar returned the kickoff 19y to his 39. Then Hank carried to ball on five of the next six plays, faking one way and cutting back against the Packers' sliding defense. on 4th-and-one at the GB 44, Owen took a big gamble, signalling Danowski to go for it.
  I knew, the coach explained later, that was what he wanted to do anyway, and I agreed with him.
  Soar drilled into the line but didn't gain much. But when they brought the chains in, the Giants had a first down by the length of the ball. Soar threw an incompletion, then Danowski decided to use him as a re­ceiver for a gain of 10. After Workhorse Hank ran again for four to the 24, Ed tossed to him cutting over the middle even though two Packers covered him. Soar grabbed the ball over his shoulder off Hinkle's fingertips at the seven. He was tackled from behind but fell into the end zone. Cuff booted the PAT. Giants 23 Packers 17
  
  Years later, Soar remembered his winning touchdown catch: I was near the goal line, and when I came down with the ball, I had three of four Packers all around me. Clarke Hinkle grabbed me by one leg, but I pulled and pulled and jerked loose and went in.
  The Packers moved the ball on the weary Giant eleven until Danowski intercepted on his 32.

• Quarter 4
  Hein reentered to call the defensive signals and help his mates repel Green Bay's sorties.
  From the GB 35, Herber pitched two incomplete passes, and FB Ed Jankowski could gain only a yard through the center. Going for it on fourth down, Herber whipped a long pass to Wayland Becker, who leaped into the air and caught the ball on the 20. But after he took one stride, Cuff charged in from his defensive halfback position. The impact was heard all over the stadium. The ball bounded from Becker's arms as he fell, and Giant G Kayo Lunday recov­ered on the 22.
  But the Giants offense had totally spent itself on the last touchdown drive and wasn't able to muster much of a push in the final period. So Green Bay quickly got the ball back.
  The first play added to Lambeau's rage against the officials. Herber threw a 17y pass from a spread formation to E Milt Gantenbein to the NY 43, but head linesman Conover called the play back and gave the ball to New York on the GB 44, ruling that, on the presnap shift, the wide flanker moved too close to the line, covering up Gantenbein and making him an ineligible receiver.
  Afterward, Lambeau complained bitterly about the ineligible receiver call. We had used [the play] seven times previously this year, and there never was a protest. He mentioned that Herber actually motioned to the sideline that he wanted to take the team off the field to protest what the Packers considered a rank injustice. But Curly wouldn't let him because we still had enough time to score.
  In a foul mood, the Packers were penalized 15y for piling on Leemans, an action that provoked a half-minute of fisticuffs. That helped move the Giants close enough for Cuff to try a 36y field goal, but it sailed wide.
  Hinkle regretted that his team started to get rough out there. It's silly for grown men to lose their tempers in a game. Looks bad, too.
  With the floodlights burning through the darkness, the Packers moved from their 20 to the NY 40 with four minutes remaining. Fourth down overtook them there with 10y to go. Eve­ryone knew what was going to happen when Hutson and Herber trotted off the bench, Herber helmetless, his bushy hair a dark halo under the lights. Arnie faded to midfield and threw one high toward the goal line. It bounced free on the five as Hutson was herded out of the play.
  Two minutes later, the Packers had the ball again after Danowski punted into the end zone. Her­ber tried the hook-and-ladder play. He threw to Carl Mulleneaux. As a posse of Giants closed in, Carl lateralled to Hutson. Don pivoted on one heel and seem­ed to have a clear path to the goal line. But Soar reached out and pulled him down from be­hind after a 40y gain. As the last seconds ticked off, Herber tried to get off a desperation pass, but the Giants' furious rush caused the pass to bounce crazily on the soggy turf with no receiver near it.
  

Afterwards, Dell Isola and Cuff were taken to the hospital with possible fractures to the vertebrae and breastbone respectively. Hein also had his concussion checked out.

The statistics favored the Packers, although the victorious Giants couldn't care less.

• First downs: 14-10 Packers
• Yards rushing: 161-115 Packers
• Passing: Packers 19-8-1/214y, Giants 15-8-1/94y
• Return yardage: Giants 116, Packers 59
• Fumbles lost: Packers 2, Giants 0
• Penalty Yards: Packers 20, Giants 10
• Soar accounted for 106y, 65 on 21 rushing attempts and 41 more on three catches.
• Danowski completed 7 of 11 for 77y with 2 touchdowns and 0 interceptions

Postgame

• Coach Owen gloated: "I think we proved beyond a doubt that we were not lucky when we beat the Packers the last time."
  He admitted the Giants were determined to stop the Packers' running game. Yep, they tore us apart and ran through us the other time [November 20]. But not this time. Those kids of mine just made up their minds that famous Packer attack was going to be stopped. And how they stopped it.
  Steve also revealed that he had changed all the blocking assignments in his pet "A forma­tion." Then, too, we didn't throw as many passes as usual. When we found out early in the game we didn't have to pitch 'em, well, we just didn't.
  The Giants' major domo also said that his men were fired up by the talk that they were lucky. After we beat the Packers two weeks ago and Washington last week, everybody hollered we were the luckiest club ever ... So no one gave my kids credit for being as smart as they really are - and they fooled everybody, including Green Bay.
• Lambeau: It just isn't fair for us to lose a game on account of incompetent officiating. That's my sincere opinion.
  In 1984, Hutson recalled the '38 title game: In all my career, that was the only time that an injury kept me out of a game. We played the New York Giants for the title that year, and I felt we were a better team than they were. We should have won the game. We even played better than them that day, but we lost it on a couple of kicks they blocked and were able to take advan­tage of.

The New York and Green Bay players split 50% of the championship game receipts while another 10% went to the division runners-up.

• The Giants received 60% of the $28,585.68 players' pool or $504.45 per man.
• Each Packer earned $368.84.