Word: multiflexed
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...just now beginning to understand the Multiflex. The idea is, you use multiple sets against a defense, always keeping the advantage, always squeezing one player after another until he's declared his tendency. If we execute, they can't win," the Eliot House senior explains...
Durgin has keyed an offensive line that has shunted aside defensive linemen with methodical regularity, despite the handicap of playing under five quarterbacks at one ime or another. Restic has also entrusted his line to protect those signal-callers, the precious cogs in his treasured Multiflex...
Flanking the center, Orazio Lattanzi has done a workmanlike job at guard, and Dan Mee has alternated with Harry Cash at the other guard slot. "These guys understand the Multiflex," Restic says approvingly...
More than that, they execute. No matter how precisely the Multiflex performs on computer readouts, on the field it requires good old-fashioned blow-'em-out blocking. When halfbacks Tom Beatrice and Paul Connors and fullback Jim Callinan gallop for more than 200 yards a game, the credit lies equally with their skill and with the effectiveness of the offensive front...
...lest anyone fall into the trap of stereotyping the hulking Durgin and his mates as lunks, consider that the Crimson offense has seven--count 'em--blocking systems, each with manifold variations. Because of the line's experience, it has worked out a solid means of communication, Durgin says. The Multiflex entails various stunts, Durgin explains. For instance, he adds, the line has become particularly effective on "you-calls." He then realizes the futility of explaining the Multiflex to an outsider, and simplifies. "You make adjustments...