Editing Centennial Conference (section)

===Chronological timeline===
* 1981 - On June 4, 1981, the Centennial Conference was founded as a football-only league, then known as the '''Centennial Football Conference'''. Charter members included [[Dickinson College]], [[Franklin & Marshall College]], [[Gettysburg College]], [[Johns Hopkins University]], [[Muhlenberg Mules|Muhlenberg College]], [[Swarthmore College]], [[Ursinus College]], and Western Maryland College, now [[McDaniel College]].
* 1992 - The Centennial Football Conference became the Centennial Conference when the conference expanded to add other sports, effective in the 1992-93 academic year. [[Bryn Mawr College]], [[Haverford College]] and [[Washington College]] also joined the newly-formed all-sports conference.
* 1998 - [[Washington and Lee University]] joined the Centennial as an affiliate member for men's wrestling, effective in the 1998-99 academic year.
* 2001 - Johns Hopkins left the [[University Athletic Association]] (UAA) to fully align with the Centennial Conference for all the sports being sponsored, effective in the 2001-02 academic year.
* 2004 - The [[United States Merchant Marine Academy]] (Merchant Marine) and [[Stevens Institute of Technology]] (Stevens or Stevens Tech) joined the Centennial as affiliate members for men's wrestling, effective in the 2004-05 academic year.
* 2007 - [[Juniata College]] and [[Moravian College]] joined the Centennial as affiliate members for football, effective in the 2007 fall season (2007-08 academic year).
* 2010 - [[Susquehanna University]] joined the Centennial as an affiliate member for football and women's golf, effective in the 2010-11 academic year.
* 2012 - [[New York University]] joined the Centennial as an affiliate member for men's wrestling, effective in the 2012-13 academic year.
* 2016 - NYU left the Centennial as an affiliate member for wrestling, effective after the 2015-16 academic year.
* 2017 - Susquehanna left the Centennial as an affiliate member for women's golf, effective after the 2017 spring season (2016-17 academic year).
* 2017 - [[Marymount University]] and [[Neumann University]] joined the Centennial as affiliate members for women's golf, effective in the 2018 spring season (2017-18 academic year).
* 2019 - Two institutions left the Centennial as affiliate members: Neumann for women's golf and Stevens for men's wrestling, effective after the 2018-19 academic year.
* 2019 - [[Cabrini University]] joined the Centennial as an affiliate member for women's golf to replace Neumann's spot, effective in the 2020 spring season (2019-20 academic year).<ref>{{cite press release |url=https://cabrini.villanova.com/news/2019/8/21/golf-women-womens-golf-announces-2019-fall-schedule.aspx |title=Women's Golf Announces 2019 Fall Schedule
 |publisher=Cabrini University Athletics |date=August 21, 2019 |access-date=September 10, 2024 |archive-date=September 10, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240910193823/https://cabrini.villanova.com/news/2019/8/21/golf-women-womens-golf-announces-2019-fall-schedule.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* 2022 - [[Washington and Lee University]] departed as an affiliate member in wrestling for their primary conference, the [[Old Dominion Athletic Conference]].<ref>{{cite press release |url=https://centennial.org/news/2024/8/6/cmu-to-join-centennial-as-associate-football-member.aspx |title=Carnegie Mellon to Join Centennial as Associate Football Member |publisher=Centennial Conference |date=September 9, 2024 |access-date=September 9, 2024 |archive-date=September 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240909161904/https://centennial.org/news/2024/8/6/cmu-to-join-centennial-as-associate-football-member.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* 2023 - Football affiliates Juniata, Moravian and Susquehanna departed for a new football league in the [[Landmark Conference]], effective after the 2022 fall season (2022-23 academic year).<ref>{{cite press release |url=https://generalssports.com/news/2022/8/31/odac-to-sponsor-mens-wrestling.aspx |title=ODAC to Sponsor Men's Wrestling |publisher=Washington and Liberty University Athletics |date=August 31, 2022 |access-date=September 21, 2022 |archive-date=September 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220921084558/https://generalssports.com/news/2022/8/31/odac-to-sponsor-mens-wrestling.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* 2024 - Cabrini University ceased operations in June 2024, ending its time in the Centennial as an affiliate member for women's golf.
* 2025 - [[Carnegie Mellon University]] will join the Centennial as an associate football member, effective for the 2025 fall season (2025-26 academic year).<ref>{{cite press release |url=https://centennial.org/news/2024/8/6/cmu-to-join-centennial-as-associate-football-member.aspx |title=Carnegie Mellon to Join Centennial as Associate Football Member |publisher=Centennial Conference |date=September 9, 2024 |access-date=September 9, 2024 |archive-date=September 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240909161904/https://centennial.org/news/2024/8/6/cmu-to-join-centennial-as-associate-football-member.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref>