The Cardinals were slight favorites, at 3½ points despite losing quarterback Paul Christman with a fractured wrist injury.
Due to heavy snowfall, the grounds crew needed the help of players from both teams to remove the tarp from the field.
Eagles head coach Greasy Neale gave a majority of the credit for the win to veteran quarterback Tommy Thompson.
[16] He sold the team a few weeks after this game to the Happy Hundred syndicate for $250,000 (equal to $3,201,399 today),[17][18] and died six years later of a heart attack at the age of 43.
It remains the second-lowest scoring postseason game in NFL history, eclipsed only by the Dallas Cowboys' 5–0 win over the Detroit Lions in 1970.