All Brecks home games were played at Eclipse Park, until the stadium caught fire and burned to the ground on November 20, 1922.
[1] NFL President Joseph Carr liked the idea of having professional football in cities with strong baseball traditions.
The games proceeds went to a fund to erect a memorial to the first Indiana soldier to die in World War I.
The team lost on the road to the eventual 1922 NFL Champion Canton Bulldogs 38–0 and the Toledo Maroons 39–0.
The very next game featured the worst loss in franchise history as the Brecks were defeated by the Racine Legion 59–0.
Had Eclipse Park not burned down, forcing cancellation of the final two games, the team would probably have financially broken even.
After the destruction of Eclipse Park, the Brecks decided to play their home games of the 1923 season at the newly constructed Parkway Field.
In order for the team to bring the Akron Pros, Columbus Panhandles, or Oorang Indians to Louisville, the Brecks announced the sale of season tickets.
The Indians were an all-Native American football team, created by, owner Walter Lingo to promote the sale of his airedale terriers.
[3] The Louisville Colonels were created in 1926 to fill the schedules of the expanded NFL, but they were a traveling team that operated out of Chicago.
That season, the NFL added several semi-pro teams to their ranks, mostly to keep them out of the rival American Football League.
Bill Harley, the former owner of the Toledo Maroons, was granted the right to manage the Louisville Colonel operation out of Chicago, while Hertzman still owned the team.
[1] The Colonels failed to register a single point during the 1926 season, one of a very small number of organized teams to have suffered such an ignonomy.
[4] The Brecks-Colonels franchise is the last team from the four currently extant major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada to play its home games in Kentucky, although the Kentucky Colonels played in the American Basketball Association from 1967 until the ABA-NBA merger brought the ABA into the National Basketball Association after the 1975–76 season.