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...1970s and '80s, Restic was known as an offensive innovator. His "Multi-Flex" offense tentured many tactics unorthodox at the time. Today, those same tactics putting men in motion, spreading the field, single back and no-back sets--are the norm in college and professional football...
...career on the philosophy that doing many things is better than doing one. Although he didn't start playing football until he was 15 (a high school coach saw Restic kicking a football with his friends and recruited him on the spot, George Gipp-style), Restic and his "Multi-Flex" offense opened doors for coaches throughout the sport...
Instead of featuring a conservative three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust attack, the Multi-Flex was designed to attack a defense on every front. Putting men in motion, spreading the field, throwing the ball--the Multi-Flex probed for a weakness and exploited whatever it found...
...roots of the Multi-Flex grew out of the nine years Restic coached in the Canadian Football League before he came to Harvard. The CFL's rules--12 men on the field, three downs to go 10 yards and unlimited motion in the backfield--encouraged offensive imagination and crazy plays...
...pushed the limit of the rulebook. Game officials had to be briefed before each game. (One referee commented that he had difficulty telling which receivers were eligible and which were not, but always gave Restic the benefit of the doubt.) In 1973, former Northeastern Coach Joe Zabilski called the Multi-Flex "the most imaginative offense around, the thing of the future...