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...That was typical of the innovation he brought to football," says Donald Ignacio '72, the first football team captain under Restic. "It was really refreshing, very innovative and flexible...
...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...
...when Restic came back to the stodgier American game, his ideas 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...
...right. The ideas Restic brought to the football 20 years ago are mainstream ideas today...
...think there's been many changes in how football is played as a game today," Restic said. "When I first came here, I was talking about some single-back sets and no-back sets and people said, 'You can't do that!' and 'You can't play the game that way!' But you see a lot of it today. The single-back set. Opening up the spread sets. The exciting part of the game...