Friday, January 12, 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
9
A thinner Rodger plays better ball
By Beth Gaeddert
Kansan Staff Reporter
Rodger Bohnensiehl caught a bad cold the week before. The Sunflower Doubleheader, Dec. 15-16, lost 15 pounds, and thinks he's been playing better basketball because of it.
He had gained those 15 extra pounds this summer, pushing his weight to 200 pounds. His coaches thought it would help him get good position for rebounding. He's glad the weight is gone because he felt sluggish and couldn't move as fast.
"The past few games I've been playing better. I think it's noticeable," Bohnensthl said.
The Jayhawks' only senior this year, he was an All-Big Eight selection and KU's leading scorer last year.
Team members' confidence in each other is of prime importance, and he contends the Jayhawks learned this the hard way-by their loss to Oklahoma State in the Big Eight Tournament.
"We realized we hadn't been playing as a team at all," Bohn-enstiehl said.
He's confident KU can win its third straight Big Eight crown but said: "There's not a weak team in the conference. It's going to be tough. K-State and Oklahoma are also 2-0. It just goes to show you have to be ready for all of them. Everybody has a lot of players back from last year and they're a lot better."
In recent practices rebounding has been a focal point, Bohnen-stiehl said.
"We've been having a little problem with our rebounding. Each man has been working on blocking his man and then going to the board instead of just going to the board," he said.
This summer Bohnenstiehl will
be an instructor in coach Teed Owens' basketball camp at KU. It will help him "mold some sort of ideas of how I'd like to coach my team. There are a lot of small basic things you have to know that I think I'll learn," he said.
High school coaching in his home state of Illinois would please Bohnensiethl because, "people know me there and I'd like to go back if I had the chance."
But before that he wouldn't pass up a chance to play professionally, although he hasn't talked to any teams yet. He doesn't have a favorite team and likes "to watch them all play," but "of course everybody like the Boston Celtics and the 76ers."
More opportunities in the professional field have been created because of the new American Basketball Association, he said.
Bohnenstiehl's five brothers, (he's the youngest), didn't play basketball, but Rodger made the all-state team in both his junior and senior years and was an All-American his senior year.
man. "I tried football when I was a sophomore but got a concussion so I decided it wasn't my game," he said.
Hs's almost strictly a basketball
He lettered as a hurdler in track but contends he was "real slow."
Bohnenstiehl is a physical education major taking 14 hours. There isn't much time left between studying and basketball—especially during the season—for girls or other hobbies but "I do manage to get" out once in a while," he said.
Med Center receives drug research, grant
The Kansas University Medical Center in Kansas City received a $261,633 grant Thursday from the National Institute of General Medical Science Division of the Public Health Service.
The grant is to be used for research on factors affecting responses to drugs. The principal investigator will be Dr. Daniel Azarnoff.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
TODAY
Foreign Students. Read the January,
1968, INTERNATIONAL CAMPUS
Newsletter. If you did not receive a
conv, see secretary 226 Strong Hall
Students from Africa. Complete
the AAI Questionnaire before
finals.
K.U. Muslim Society. 12:30 p.m.
Peters, East Room, School of Re-
lation.
*Popular Film, 7 & 9:30 p.m. "Advisory assistance"*
*Original Film, 7:50 p.m. "Two
Foreign Film. 7:30 p.m. "Two Daughters." India. Holocaust Auditorium.
Iranian Student Organization
p.m. Movie: Coronation of Shah of
Iran. Free to Public. Cottonwood
Room, Kansas Union.
SATURDAY
Last Day of Classes
Foreign Language Proficiency Examination. 1:30 p.m. French, 411 Seminumeric field; Spanish, Dycha Auditorium; Somali, 101 Carruth; Latin, 104 Carruth.
Popular Film. 7 & 9:30 p.m. "Advise and Consent." Dynee Auditorium.
Basketball. 8 p.m. Portland. Allen Field House.
SUNDAY
Carillon Recital. 3 p.m. Albert Gerken.
Popular Film. 7 & 9:30 p.m. "Adoptive and Consort." Dyche Aplidorium.
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