As well as stockings and gloves, a couple of players wore balaclavas against the cold and Honduras said two players should be taken off "due to the super environment".
Visiting guide Hernan Gomez made three half-time changes, two of which should be an immediate consequence of the freezing conditions.
Before get going Gomez had said arranging the game in Minnesota was "impossible", adding: "The game hasn't started, but I can barely wait for it to end. Since it's not for appreciating, it's for wretchedness."
US lead coach Gregg Berhalter said the choice of setting was down to the truth his gathering had played in Hamilton, Canada on Sunday and the 930-mile trip to Minnesota's state capital of Saint Paul decreased travel time, adding that the USA had endeavored to make a "safeguarded environment".
US showed 'little soccer attitude'
Temperatures in Saint Paul show up at an ordinary low of - 11C in February as shown by US data, with a typical regular high of around freezing. At half-time the power USA bunch account posted a screen grab of the local temperature at 1F, or about - 17C.
Fans watching at Allianz Field were given hand warmers at their seat and clinical stations were set up in the field.
Chatting on US TV, past Premier League midfielder Craig Burley said: "This is one more piece of the lamentable jigsaw. The USA has a significant people yet a little soccer outlook. To play in the best conditions - you back yourself.
"They don't continue to put a game on in a space where this season the environment and temperatures and all that goes with playing your best is horrendous. That is a small attitude to have."
Gotten some data about the playing conditions, Berhalter replied: "What I would concur is that we gave Honduras and their staff and the refs with warm weather patterns gear, we outfitted them with headgear, and [tried] to make it a safeguarded environment for them to play.
"Whenever we go down to those countries and it's 90 degrees and it's grievous wetness and people are getting evaporated out and seizing and getting heat exhaustion, that is the possibility of our resistance.
"At the point when we booked this game and this region, you know, you want to go by ordinary temperatures."
Canada nervous, Jimenez on target
Berhalter's gathering are as of now second in Concacaf meeting all prerequisites for bunches from Central America, North America and the Caribbean with three games remaining.
Three of the eight gatherings in the social affair will meet all prerequisites for the World Cup normally, with a fourth entering a set up to battle with the victor of the Oceania qualifying contest.
Canada are close to the unstable edge of a first World Cup appearance starting around 1986 after targets from Atiba Hutchinson and Jonathan David secured a 2-0 win over El Salvador.
The Canadians, administered by English guide John Herdman, are as of now four concentrates clear at the most noteworthy place of the get-together.
Mexico opened up a four-point opening in third placed with Wolves' Raul Jimenez on target in a 1-0 win over Panama, while fifth-set Costa Rica kept their passing assumptions humming with a 1-0 away win over Jamaica in Kingston.
