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Posted By: davidcycleback

I checked Amherst College's website and it was a league championship not national championship. I don't believe there was any national championship that early. Their league was called the triangular league and consisted of Amherst, Wesleyan, and Williams Colleges. Amherst had a good athletic program at the time, with the football and baseball teams playing Ivy League schools including Harvard and Yale. I believe this was Amherst's first basketball championship, as they formed their first team in 1901.

Source:

http://www.amherst.edu/library/archives/texts/tower_amherst_athletics/index.html