[1] Nix, a centreman recruited from Trafalgar, debuted at VFL level aged just 17.
[4] His best season was in 1952, when he played in all of Richmond's 19 games and polled eight Brownlow Medal votes.
[4][5] At the end of the 1956 season, Nix was appointed playing coach of Latrobe Valley Football League side Sale.
[9] In 1966, Nix returned to the Tigers as Reserve Grade coach,[10] and led them to a premiership in his first season.
Nix’s Tiger Reserves won all twenty games – including the second semi and Grand Final – on the scoreboard, but were denied an official perfect season[note 1] because they played an unregistered player, Frank Loughran, in three games[11] against Carlton, Footscray and Collingwood Reserves.