Joseph William Restic (July 21, 1926 – December 8, 2011) was an American gridiron football player and coach.
He was known as a coaching innovator, devising a complex offense known as the multiflex while in Canada and taking it to Harvard.
He played two seasons as an end in the National Football League (NFL) for the Philadelphia Eagles.
During their period of the college football rivalry, known as The Game, Yale won 13 times to Harvard's 10.
While coaching in Canada, Restic devised the multiflex offense, which encompassed numerous formations, blocking strategies and pass patterns, sometimes with shifts at the last moment.
[1] In 1979, a professor and former Harvard quarterback, Larry Brown, created a class titled Fundamentals of Multiflex Offense to explain the maneuvers of the strategy.