| Tommy Spence | |
| Birth Date: | 17 April 1896 |
| Birth Place: | Thomasville, Georgia, U.S. |
| Death Place: | France |
| Currentposition: | Fullback |
| School: | Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets |
| Class: | 1917 |
| Height Ft: | 5 |
| Height In: | 11 |
| Weight Lb: | 168 |
| Pastschools: | Georgia Tech (1914–1916) |
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Thomas Louis Spence (April 17, 1896 – November 27, 1918) was an American college football player. Spence also played on the baseball, basketball, and track teams.[1]
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.[2]
In 1915, near the end of the LSU game, he returned an interception 85 yards.[3] He made a 40-yard drop kick field goal against North Carolina.[4]
Spence was a starter for the 1916 team which, as one writer wrote, "seemed to personify Heisman."[5] 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.[6] He was selected All-Southern that season.[7] Walter Camp gave him honorable mention.
Spence was a casualty of the World War I.[8] He is the namesake of Spence Air Base.[9]