The NFL suffered a big loss in May when president Joe Carr died.

• He was instrumental in building the league in the 1920s and '30s especially by his efforts to put franchises in larger cities. Goodbye Canton, Racine, and Portsmouth. Welcome Detroit, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh.
• Carl Storck, long-time league secretary, took over Carr's job.
• The league surpassed one million in attendance for the first time.
• NBC televised an NFL game from Ebbets Field in Brooklyn on October 22 to the estimated 1,000 sets in the New York area. Undoubtedly, the 13,051 spectators outnumbered the TV viewers.

• The 9-1-1 Giants won the East because of their defense, which gave up only 85 points in 11 games. Coach Steve Owen stressed ball control as evi­denced by the fact that New York led the league in rushing attempts with an even 500, 52 more than the more wide open Green Bay. Their division-clinching win in the finale against the Redskins typified their season. They won 9-7 on three FGs.
  It actually took a highly disputed referee's call to preserve the Giants' victory. With 45 seconds left, Bo Russell lined up a 15y FG that would give Washington the Eastern Division crown. Even some Giants thought Russell made it, but referee Bill Halloran signalled no good. The Redskins bench stormed the field, and one player allegedly punched Halloran. Legend says that Washington owner George Marshall used his connections to get Halloran fired. Whether that's true or Bill decided he'd had enough, he did not return for the '40 season. The brouhaha did lead to the stationing of an official under the posts to help the referee determine whether the kick is good.
• The 9-2 Packers, by contrast, triumphed with their relentless offense led by as fine a trio of skill players as any team could deploy: E Don Hutson and passers Arnie Herber and Cecil Isbell. Green Bay would also prove in the championship game that their defense was underrated.
  The Packers played their first six games at home and the last five on the road - probably to avoid the late fall weather in northern Wisconsin. Their two defeats split - one at home and one on the road. Interestingly, they played both games against Western foe, the Chicago Cardinals, at home.
• Packers dotted the top five lists in all the offensive statistical categories whereas the only Giants to appear were Tuffy Leemans (4th in rushing attempts and in combined net yards) and Ward Cuff and Ken Strong (1st and 3rd in FGs).
  Strong returned to the Giants after a three-year absence.
• The star of the 1934 NFL Championship Game refused to re-sign with New York after the '35 season because the club refused to raise his $150/game salary.
• He signed for $5000 with the New York Yankees of the fledgling American Football League that folded after only four games. But Ken had wisely insisted that his salary be placed in escrow.
• The NFL suspended Strong for five years because of his "extreme disloyalty." After his AFL stint, the Giants sent him to their farm team in Jersey City NJ and convinced the league to allow him to return after a three-year absence.
• Hampered by a bad back, Ken primarily contributed to the Eastern champions by his leadership and placekicking.

• Quarter 2
  With the wind now at their backs, the Giants' best chance to score until the game was out of reach came when Ed Danowski completed a 36y pass to Tuffy Leemans to put the ball on the 9. Facing an excellent shot at tying the game, the Giants threw an INT on the very next play.
  NY also got close enough twice to attempt FGs. Because of the breeze advantage, Len Bar­num tried a 53-yarder and later Cuff propelled one from the GB 41 that missed by inches.
  As Packer LG Russ Letlow limped off the field at the end of the half, trainer Dave Woodward told him, Let me see your knee. Get away from me, Letlow barked.
  

Quarter 3
Joe Laws corraled a Giants' wind-aided punt at his 15 and returned it 30y. Isbell and Clarke Hinkle carried seven times through the line to the 23. On fourth down, Tiny Engebretsen place-kicked a 29y FG to make it 10-0.
A few minutes later, GB got excellent field position following Milt Gantenbein's INT of Ed Danowski's short pass and 4y return. It took only three plays to traverse the 33y. After Laws failed to gain and Hinkle pushed to the 31, Isbell took the pass from C and screened the ball with his body as if a spinner play was in process. He then faded back, turned, and lofted a wobbly pass to Laws racing down the middle with Leemans and Danowski chasing far behind. At the 7, Joe merely reached over his head and pulled down the ball with the nonchalance of Joe DiMaggio back­ing to the center-field flagpole for a long fly (Arthur J. Daley, New York Times). Tiny's boot made it 17-0 as fans refused to return the football that landed in the EZ stands.
Late in the period, the G-men got their first real scoring chance after Leemans punted 58y to the EZ. A 15y holding penalty forced a Packer punt, which John Dell Isola partially block to give NY possession on the 16. But on the first play, Charles Brock stole Danowski's pass on the 10 and returned 3y. The Packers then punted out of danger.

• First downs: 10-9 Packers
• Yards rushing: 131-70 Packers
• Passing: Packers 10-7-3/93y, Giants 26-9-6/89y (Yards lost attempting to pass counted against the passing yardage)
• Return yardage: Giants 135, Packers 74
• Fumbles lost: Packers 0, Giants 0
• Penalty Yards: Packers 50, Giants 16
• The Giants, who had thrown only 11 INTs in 11 games, fired six into Packer hands.
• NY intercepted three passes themselves and blocked two punts but could not take advan­tage of the breaks.

Postgame

• With no showers in the locker rooms, the teams boarded their busses in their smelly uni­forms. As the story goes, the exhausted Giants were silent until E Jim Lee Howell called out, Come on, smile. We're lucky we got out alive. Just then a Packer fan threw a bottle at the bus, shattering a window. Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed.
• Meeting the press later, Lambeau revealed the reason for his team's dominance: There wasn't a team in the world that could beat our club today. We were hotter today than we ever have been before. Everything worked to perfection. No matter who we sent in, they all performed like champions. No club could beat our team today. I don't want to take anything away from the Giants. They have a great ball club, make no mistake about that. Week in and week out we cer­tainly are not that much better than them. But today our boys were out to avenge that beating of last year. They had keyed themselves as few teams I have ever seen were keyed.
• To a man, the Giants conceded that Green Bay was much the better club and fully deserved to win. Molenda: They were up for the game and we were down. Some of their veterans, like Bill Lee, Tiny Engebretsen, Buford Ray, and Buckets Goldenberg, played a whale of a game on the line, and it was in the line that they really ripped us apart. ... They rushed our passers all the time, never allowing them to get set, stopped our running attack cold and opened tremendous holes for their ball carriers. Beyond a question, that Green Bay line was the best we'd seen in years. We have no alibis at all. Twice we blocked kicks and failed to capitalize.
• Such expert NFL observers as Potsy Clark (Brooklyn coach), Dutch Clark (Cleveland Rams major domo), George Halas (Bears head man), and Hunk Anderson (Halas's assistant) con­curred that Green Bay's overwhelming victory could be traced to the magnificent work of the line.
• Owen, who heard part of the game on radio, was disappointed but held no regrets. We met a very good Green Bay team and losing was not a disgrace. The boys can't be condemned. They had a long, tough schedule and were bound to run up against defeat here and there. Furthermore, Molenda's handling of the team cannot be criticized. He did as well with the men as I would have done had I been there.
• Giants president Jack Mara: Steve has no contract with us and never has had one, but he has a life job with the Giants. (Owen would continue until retirement after the 1953 season.)

The game earned a record gross of $83,510.35, the Wisconsin papers bragging that Milwaukee out­did mighty New York at the box office as well as on the field.

• The Packers split $23,231.06 for $703.97 each.
• 34 Giants each took home $455.57 as their losers' share.
• Louis Effrat in his report from Milwaukee to the New York Times: The record gate caused Tim Mara to undergo a change in diet. The genial founder and president emeritus of the Giants, whose favorite dish is filet mignon, was forced to switch to felt and therein lies a story. When it was decided to play this game here, Tim said it would not draw $65,000. "If it does," he averred, "I'll eat my hat."
  Late this frigid afternoon Tim was seen to shake hands with Curly Lambeau and then sneaked off to some isolated corner. His reputation as a sportsman is well known. It is, therefore, to be assumed that he went somewhere to "eat my hat" with or without paprika, tartar sauce, etc.