Profile picture: The Buffalo Germans, an early basketball team formed in 1895 at a YMCA on Buffalo's East Side.

The team was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1961, one of only six teams to be elected as a whole.

In 1904 the team won the AAU national tournament, which served as a demonstration sport at the St. Louis Olympics.

From 1908 to 1910 the team won 111 straight games.

The team was disbanded in 1925 after compiling a 792-86 record.