History
Named for their original field, on Breckinridge Street, the Brecks began about 1907 with a group of neighborhood boys. By 1919, the boys were men and the team was considered professional, although evidently still made up of local players.
The Brecks were one of eight teams that joined the American Professional Football Association in 1921. They lost their first league game at Evansville on October 2 and didn't play another APFA team until December 4, another loss to Columbus in Louisville. In between, they played seven other games, winning four of them.
The APFA was renamed the National Football League in 1922. The Brecks hung on for two more seasons, but played a total of just seven games against NFL teams and won only one.
In 1926, the NFL added several semi-pro teams, mainly to keep them out of the rival American Football League. The Louisville Colonels were one of the new teams. Though generally been linked with the Brecks, the Colonels were actually based in Chicago and played all four of their games on the road. They not only didn't win, they failed to score and it appears that the team folded after losing at Green Bay in mid-November.