• INSIDE THE GAME
THE VITALS

• MOORE FOCUSED
EL PASO, TEXAS -- Tulane quarterback Kevin Moore likes to collect motivational sayings, some of which he carries around in his wallet.

• NO TURNING BACK
Tulane defensive tackle Julian Shives-Sams could accept Coach Bob Toledo's stinging criticism of the Green Wave's defensive play in Saturday's 44-13 loss to Army.

• Wave seeks to cover for loss of Williams
Tulane is second in the country with the most players having caught a pass this season, 17.

• TU adds injuries to insult
Win or lose Saturday against Army, the road ahead for Tulane was going to get a lot harder.

• ABOUT-FACE
There was no Celebration in the Oaks for Tulane on Saturday.

• Brock relays importance of intensity to Cadets
Stan Brock was a winning coach on the way to talk to his Army football team.

• BY THE NUMBERS
Army | Tulane

• IT'S AN ALL-OUT SUCCESS
The aroma of hickory chips and ribs wafted through the air in thick clouds surrounding Tad Gormley Stadium. Lively music could be heard blocks away. Throngs of green-clad fans camped out under tents that stretched down Roosevelt Mall, while others sucked down cold beer and partied during the hours before kickoff.

• Wave can't contain all of Army's options
Entering Saturday's game, Tulane was ranked ninth in the NCAA in rushing defense, allowing 68.5 yards per game and hadn't allowed an opponent to rush for 100 yards this season.

• Anderson running on common ground
Every time Tulane's Andre Anderson gets hit, pops back up and asks for the ball again on the next play, he can think back to what made it possible -- all that extra running, extra lifting, extra everything he did over the summer to prepare his body for the pounding he knew it would take as the Green Wave's featured running back.

• TULANE INSIDER
THE VITALS

• Wave ready for a breath of rare air
No current player on the football team knows what it feels like to be in this position at this point in a season at Tulane. No one knows what it's like to have his head above water after five games as a member of the Green Wave.

• 1998 TULANE FOOTBALL TEAM
Number | Name | Position

• CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM
Quitters. Lack of heart. No backbone.

• THE PERFECT STORM
It wasn't exactly going out on a limb to say Tulane's 1998 football team could go undefeated.

• CAN'T FACILITATE
There is, acknowledges Tulane Athletic Director Rick Dickson, "a yearning" of Green Wave fans for the school to have its own football stadium, a yearning that's enhanced this week by Saturday's homecoming game against Army being played at Tad Gormley Stadium instead of the Superdome.

• Tulane denies revenge factor vs. Army
Payback -- or at least the desire for it -- isn't what it used to be.