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...system was born before the word. Restic had been at Harvard five years when, in preparation for an ABC regional broadcast, he was explaining his offensive philosophy to announcer Lee Grosscup. "He asked me to describe what we're doing," Restic recalls now, "and I said we're talking about being flexible and we're multiple. He said, 'It's multiple and it's flexible,' so I said, 'Yeah, it's multiflex,' and he said it was a good name...
...after a lifetime of total immersion in football, Restic not only had a system but a name for it, too. Multiflex had the requisite crypto-military football sound, and it stuck. To understand--or, more realistically, to begin to understand--what that union of multiple and flexible means, one must consider Restic's football background...
After two years as an end, halfback and punter with the Philadelphia Eagles, Restic worked as an assistant coach at a variety of Eastern colleges until, in 1962, he went north to take over as offensive coach of the Canadian Football League's Hamilton Tiger Cats. The Canadian game etched itself in Restic's football mind. A peculiar, high-scoring hybrid, the CFL employs a set of rules distinct from either the pro or college game. The field is longer and wider, 110 by 75 yards, as opposed to 100 by 55 yards here; each team gets only three downs...
...three-down system means one thing," Restic says. "You have to put the ball in the air to control it. I saw the possibilities...
...John Yovicsin quit after rejuvenating the Crimson in his 16-year tenure. Harvard went coach hunting, and eventually settled on this complete unknown from the North, whom one member of the search committee called the "best football mind in North America." Since then, Restic says, the Multiflex has changed little. But despite his repeated protestations that the system, at its core, is "very simple," neither Restic nor his top quarterbacks has ever been able to tie it up in a neat one-sentence package...