Tommy Spence

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Tommy Spence
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Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
Position Fullback
Class 1917
Career history
College Georgia Tech (1914–1916)
Personal information
Date of birth (1896-04-17)April 17, 1896
Place of birth Thomasville, Georgia
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Place of death France
Career highlights and awards

Thomas Louis "Tommy" Spence (April 17, 1896 – November 27, 1918) was a college football player. Spence also played on the baseball, basketball, and track teams.[1]

Georgia Tech

Football

Spence was a prominent fullback for John Heisman's Georgia Tech Golden Tornado of the Georgia Institute of Technology. He was posthumously elected to the Georgia Tech Athletics Hall of Fame in 1976.[2]

1916

Spence was a starter for the 1916 Georgia Tech team which, as one writer wrote, "seemed to personify Heisman."[3] In Georgia Tech's record-setting 222-0 win over Cumberland College in 1916, Spence scored the second-most behind Everett Strupper when he netted five touchdowns.[4] He was selected All-Southern that season.[5] Walter Camp gave him honorable mention.

First World War

Spence was a casualty of the First World War.[6] He is the namesake of Spence Air Base.[7]

References

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