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...Crusaders also have a new coach this season, Ed Doherty, but the problems they faced in digesting Doherty's new system could not have been as legion as those encountered by Restic's proteges. The squad arrived in Cambridge on September 2 and began two-a-day workouts the next morning. They changed back to one practice a day Monday, but only after they had smoothed out Restic's complex of formations, motion and play action...
...guts of Restic's system lie in outguessing the opposition and disrupting its normal patterns both on offense and defense. His personal forte is his imagination, which, coupled with a willingness to try just about anything once, will give Harvard a multitude of offensive and defensive-variations on which to draw...
...same time, Restic realizes the necessity of tempering daring with equal doses of moderation and caution. His cautiousness is founded primarily in planning, in making allowances for each gamble he takes. When asked early in the preseason about his strategy, Restic said, "We want to play an exciting game, but if it's a question of being exciting versus winning, the exciting part goes. We want to win, and we want to win right away...
...Crimson will show only about a third of its offensive sets this weekend, due mainly to the fact that it takes time to iron out all the cogs in a system as varied as Restic...
...Crimson defense will have a similar range of choice in choosing sets to break up opponents' offensive continuity. Restic uses both odd and even man fronts, stacking linebackers and backs in odd positions, and he rolls the defense to adjust to pre-determined weak spots. The downmen and linebackers are distinct from the deep backs in that they call separate sets on each down; but the two defensive calls are coordinated...