Tommy Spence
Thomas Louis Spence was an American college football player. Spence also played on the baseball, basketball, and track teams.Football
Spence was a prominent fullback for John Heisman's Georgia Tech Golden Tornado of the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1914 to 1916. He was posthumously elected to the Georgia Tech Athletics Hall of Fame in 1976.In 1915, near the end of the LSU game, he returned an interception 85 yards. He made a 40-yard drop kick field goal against North Carolina.1916
Spence was a starter for the 1916 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.Spence was a casualty of the World War I. He is the namesake of Spence Air Base.
