Ted Breaks
Edward Breaks was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League as a left back for Halifax Town.Life and career
Breaks was born in Halifax, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, in 1919. He worked at John Holdsworth & Co textile mills in the town before serving in the Tank Corps during the Second World War. He played football for the Shaw Lodge Mills works team, from where he joined Halifax Town in 1948. Over the next seven seasons he made 179 appearances in the Football League Third Division North, scoring once, before retiring from the game and returning to Holdsworth's.
Breaks and his wife, Maureen, had a daughter, Christine. He died in a Halifax nursing home in 2000 at the age of 80.
