Buffalo Germans

The Buffalo Germans were an American basketball team that made ​​it as a current of eight teams in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

The first crew consisted of six players ( including John I. Maier and Henry J. Faust ), who played in the East Side of Buffalo basketball together at the YMCA. Other team members were: Philip Dischinger, Alfred A. Heerdt ( captain ), Edward Linneborn, Albert W. Manweiler, Edward C. Miller, Harry J. Miller, Charles P. Monahan, George L. Redlein, Edmund Reimann, Williams C. Rhode and George Schell. Your Coach, Dr. Fred W. Burkhardt, let them compete against other teams. By 1898 the Germans were considered unbeatable because they won the title three times in succession. In the next two years they won 48 of 52 games and thus set a record on.

In 1901 she participated in the Pan American Championships and won with 10:1 victories. Three years later they won at the III. Olympic Games in St. Louis the gold medal (however, the IOC considered the basketball tournament merely as a demonstration sport ). From the 1907/08 season to the 1910/11 season won the Buffalo Germans 111 games in a row and thus set a new record. The Buffalo Germans had arrived with the victory ( 134:0 ) against the Hobart College at the peak.

In 1925, disbanded the team, according to a review of 792 wins and 86 defeats on. The Buffalo Germans were incorporated in 1961 as the third team in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. The Germans are among the best and most dominant teams of all time.