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Hopkins Football Places 11 on Centennial Silver Anniversary Team

11 Former Blue Jays Honored

Complete Centennial Conference Silver Anniversary Football Team

LANCASTER, PA –  Eleven former members of the Johns Hopkins football team have been named to the Centennial Conference Silver Anniversary Team it was announced today.  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-three (63) 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.

Centennial Conference History
The purpose of the Centennial Conference is to provide for athletic competition among institutions that share high academic aspirations and are committed to the importance of the total educational experience for students engaged in sports. Its full-time members include Bryn Mawr, Dickinson, Franklin & Marshall, Gettysburg, Haverford, McDaniel, Muhlenberg, Swarthmore, Ursinus and Washington Colleges, along with Johns Hopkins University. 

The Conference was founded in 1981 as the Centennial Football Conference and began competition as an all-sports conference in the fall of 1993. The Conference crowns champions in 24 sports.

Centennial Conference Silver Anniversary Football Team
(Johns Hopkins Selections)

Name (Year Graduated)
(Criteria Achieved)

Stu Markley (1994)
• Three-time First Team All-Centennial (1990, 1991, 1993)

Jelani Rucker (1995)
• Three-time First Team All-Centennial (1992, 1993, 1994)

Todd Bencivenni (1997)
• Three-time First Team All-Centennial (1994, 1995, 1996)

Harrison Bernstein (2000)
• Three-time First Team All-Centennial (1997, 1998, 1999)
• Thee-time All-American (1997, 1998, 1999)

David Perna (2000)
• Three-time First Team All-Centennial (1997, 1998, 1999)

Matt Campbell (2005)
• Three-time First Team All-Centennial (2002, 2003, 2004)
• First Team All-American (2003)

Michael Milano (2012)
• Three-time First Team All-Centennial (2009, 2010, 2011)

Armand Jenifer (2014)
• Three-time First Team All-Centennial (2011, 2012, 2013)
• First Team All-American (2012, 2013)

Colin Egan (2016)
• Two-time First Team All-Centennial (2014, 2015)
• First Team All-American (2014, 2015)

Jack Toner (2016)
• Three-time First Team All-Centennial (2014, 2015, 2016)
• First Team All-American (2016)
• Two-time All-American (2015, 2016)

Bradley Munday (2017)
• Three-time First Team All-Centennial (2014, 2015, 2016)

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