Rice 42, Tulane 34

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Team Stat Comparison
1st Downs	22	22
Total Yards	452	506
Passing	298	114
Rushing	154	392
Penalties	7-68	3-35
3rd Down Conversions	6-14	5-13
4th Down Conversions	1-3	2-3
Turnovers	2	2
Possession	32:14	27:46

Individual Leaders

Tulane Passing   C/ATT YDS TD INT Elliott 22/37 298 3 1 Beckman 0/1 0 0 0	Rice Passing   C/ATT YDS TD INT Armstron... 4/9 103 1 0 Clement 1/4 11 0 1
Tulane Rushing   CAR YDS TD LG Jackson 14 81 0 34 Forte 15 59 1 16 Boudreaux 3 11 0 7	Rice Rushing   CAR YDS TD LG Wall Jr. 20 156 3 75 Smith 20 143 1 58 Bilaye-B... 9 59 0 18
Tulane Receiving   REC YDS TD LG Koch 6 81 0 31 Brown 4 90 1 68 Forte 2 37 1 19 Davis 2 25 0 15	Rice Receiving   REC YDS TD LG Falco 2 64 0 52 Dillard 2 21 0 11 Wood 1 29 1 29

Scoring Summary
FIRST QUARTER				TULN	RICE
	FG	9:05	JACOB HARTGROVES 22 YD FG Drive info: 13 plays, 53 yards.	3	0
	TD	5:48	JOHN WALL JR. 25 YD RUN (BRENNAN LANDRY KICK) Drive info: 8 plays, 69 yards.	3	7
SECOND QUARTER				TULN	RICE
	TD	14:55	JOEL ARMSTRONG 4 YD RUN (BRENNAN LANDRY KICK) Drive info: 10 plays, 52 yards.	3	14
	TD	10:45	BOBBY HOOVER 15 YD PASS FROM SCOTT ELLIOTT (JACOB HARTGROVES KICK) Drive info: 8 plays, 64 yards.	10	14
	TD	6:17	PRESTON BROWN 68 YD PASS FROM SCOTT ELLIOTT (JACOB HARTGROVES KICK) Drive info: 2 plays, 68 yards.	17	14
	TD	5:04	JOHN WALL JR. 75 YD RUN (BRENNAN LANDRY KICK) Drive info: 4 plays, 90 yards.	17	21
	TD	2:38	MATT FORTE 8 YD RUN (JACOB HARTGROVES KICK) Drive info: 8 plays, 80 yards.	24	21
THIRD QUARTER				TULN	RICE
	TD	13:18	JOHN WALL JR. 1 YD RUN (BRENNAN LANDRY KICK) Drive info: 4 plays, 65 yards.	24	28
	TD	7:37	MATT FORTE 18 YD PASS FROM SCOTT ELLIOTT (JACOB HARTGROVES KICK) Drive info: 11 plays, 80 yards.	31	28
	TD	6:07	QUINTON SMITH 58 YD RUN (BRENNAN LANDRY KICK) Drive info: 3 plays, 64 yards.	31	35
FOURTH QUARTER				TULN	RICE
	FG	9:06	JACOB HARTGROVES 22 YD FG Drive info: 4 plays, 6 yards.	34	35
	TD	4:45	JOE DON WOOD 29 YD PASS FROM JOEL ARMSTRONG (BRENNAN LANDRY KICK) Drive info: 5 plays, 58 yards.	34	42

HOUSTON (AP) -- John Wall rushed for 156 yards and three touchdowns as Rice rolled up 392 yards on the ground and ended the nation's longest losing streak at 14 games with a 42-34 victory over Tulane on Saturday.

"It was a great team victory," Rice coach Ken Hatfield said. "Some of the guys even remembered the words to our victory song afterwards."

Rice's last win was Oct. 9, 2004, when the Owls beat SMU 44-10 in Houston.

"I never worried about 14 (straight losses). I worried about eight," Hatfield said. "Those other six were last year, and that was a different team. I thought it was unfair to saddle this team with those losses."

Wall and backfield mate Quinton Smith each had 20 carries, with Smith adding another 143 yards and a touchdown. Wall scored from 25 and 75 yards before a 1-yard plunge, and Smith's 58-yard run provided the last of seven lead changes, putting Rice ahead 35-31 midway through the third quarter.

The Owls (1-8, 1-5 Conference USA) gave themselves a cushion on a 29-yard touchdown pass from Joel Armstrong to tight end Joe Don Wood with 4:45 left in the game.

"We've been so close in so many games before this," Wall said. "This time the plays we practiced worked. And everybody just came together. It feels great."

Tulane (2-7, 1-5), which played in its ninth different stadium, extended its losing streak to six games after starting the season 2-1.

The Green Wave led 31-28 before Smith's score and pulled within 35-34 on a 22-yard field goal by Jacob Hartgroves with 9:06 left in the game.

But Rice's Carl Taylor recovered a fumble by Matt Forte at the Tulane 42-yard line with 6:14 to play. Five plays later, Armstrong threw the scoring pass to Wood.

Rice's Chad Price broke up a fourth-down pass with 1:22 to play, and Taylor intercepted a pass by with 5 seconds to go for the final stop.

"Those were the two biggest plays of my life," Taylor said of his fumble recovery and interception. "This was a game for our seniors. It feels real good coming after 14 straight losses."

Rice jumped to a 14-3 lead early in the second quarter. The Owls drove 69 yards in eight plays, capped by Wall's 25-yard run, and Armstrong finished a 10-play, 52-yard drive with a 4-yard run on the first play of the second quarter.

Tulane came back with two quick touchdowns in the second quarter, and the teams traded touchdowns after that as Tulane led 24-21 at the half.

The Owls scored on drives of four and three plays on their first two possessions of the second half, the latter capped by Smith's long scoring run.