Frankie Novey

Name: Frankie Novey
Alias: Pride of Mather Field
Birth Name: Frank Nowakosky
Hometown: Sacramento, California, USA
Died: 1964-08-22 (Age:61)
Pro Boxer: Record

Division: Bantamweight
Exact date of birth unknown.

Known as the "Pride of Mather Field" early in his boxing career, Frankie Novey was a soldier from that military base near Sacramento, California. According to the Oct. 9, 1922 Sacramento Star, Novey (who had given his real last name as "Nowakosky," aged 21 years) had married Ellen Lorraine Dunn (17) of Sacramento on Oct. 7.