STATISTICS & HISTORY
Barney Felix was a active in the Brooklyn independent basketball scene for almost a decade. He often served in the role of player-manager. Felix also played a handful a games with Brooklyn teams in the American and Metropolitan Basketball Leagues. Felix became a well-known boxing referee. During his forty years in the ring, he worked hundreds of fights in New York, New Jersey and Florida.. His career began at the age of 19, when he refereed at the Amateur Athletic Union’s national championships in Boston and reached its pinnacle 1n 1964 he was in the ring when Muhammad Ali, then known as Cassius Clay, won the heavyweight crown from Sonny Liston.
| BARNEY FELIX | Height: | 5:09 | Weight: | 155 | College: | Savage School/NYU | |||||
| Barney Joseph Felix | Born: Dec 10, 1906 | Died: Sep 30, 1985 | Hometown: | Brooklyn, NY | |||||||
| REGULAR SEASON RECORD | |||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1927-28 | Brooklyn Ami Club | Indep | |||||||||
| 1929-30 | Brooklyn Colony Five | Indep | |||||||||
| 1930-31 | Brooklyn | ABL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| 1931-32 | Canarsie Pros | Indep | |||||||||
| 1931-32 | Brooklyn Jewels | MBL | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | ||||
| 1932-33 | Ridgewood | Indep | |||||||||
| 1933-34 | Bayridge Hebrews | Indep | |||||||||
| 1933-34 | Brooklyn Fistic Five | Indep | |||||||||
| Major League Totals | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | ||||||