Class 1917 | Name Tommy Spence | |
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Date of birth (1896-04-17)April 17, 1896 Date of death November 27, 1918(1918-11-27) (aged 22) | ||
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.
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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.
1916
Spence was a starter for the 1916 Georgia Tech team which, as one writer wrote, "seemed to personify Heisman." 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. He was selected All-Southern that season. Walter Camp gave him honorable mention.
First World War
Spence was a casualty of the First World War. He is the namesake of Spence Air Base.