The Centennial Conference is celebrating 25 years as one of the elite small college athletic conferences in the country with the announcement of its Silver Anniversary teams, highlighting the best of the best over our first quarter-century.

For inclusion on a Silver Anniversary team, a student must have a degree from one of the Conference institutions and met one of the following qualifications: 

• 3-time or 4-time first-team All-Centennial performer
• 2-time Centennial Conference Player of the Year
• 1st team All-America AND 2-time first-team All-Centennial performer
• 2-time All-America (1st, 2nd or 3rd team)

 For individual sports such as swimming and track and field, the accomplishments must have occurred in the same event.

Football

The Centennial Football Conference was the precursor to the Centennial Conference and started play in 1983. The honorees cover the first 35 years of gridiron action.

Sixty-five (65) men were named to the Silver Anniversary team in football. Gettysburg reached the national semifinals in 1985, while Johns Hopkins earned a spot in the national quarterfinals in 2009.

110 men earned All-America honors, including 44 that have received first-team recognition. Four earned first-team Little All-America recognition.