The Joe Restic Influence
Joe Restic was the Head Football Coach at Harvard while I was at Penn and Coach Gamble considered him an offensive genius. So I rounded up all the Harvard Films I could and spent an hour everyday studying Joe Restic’s Multi-Flex Offense. It was a defensive coordinator’s nightmare. He used a trillion different formations, and it was near impossible for the defense to determine which receivers were eligible and which were ineligible prior to the snap of the ball. As a result, there were receivers wide open because someone didn’t think he was eligible. To tell you the truth, I don’t think the refs knew who was
eligible on some plays. Add to the confusion were shifts and motion and every DC in the Ivy League packed a bottle of “Pepto” and a package of Tums when they played Harvard. Here’s an example