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Which team did the player Terry Alcock belong to from 1971 to 1972?
Terry Alcock Terrence Alcock ( born 9 December 1946 ) is an English former footballer . A defender , he played 330 league games in a 15-year career in the English Football League . He played for Port Vale from 1963 to 1967 , before spending nine years with Blackpool following a £30,000 transfer . He helped the Seasiders to win promotion out of the Second Division in 1969–70 , and also featured in the clubs Anglo-Italian Cup success in 1971 . He made 112 league appearances for Port Vale and 191 league appearances for Blackpool . After 1976 he had short spells back at Port Vale , and then Halifax Town and Lancaster City . He also had short loan spells with Bury , Blackburn Rovers and American side Portland Timbers . Playing career . Port Vale . Alcock was born in Hanley , and attended Wellington Road School , where he played as a goalkeeper , before later converting into a versatile central defender . Starting his career at Third Division club Port Vale in 1963 , he played two games in 1963–64 , before he turned professional in September 1964 under Freddie Steele . He then featured 31 times in the 1964–65 season , as the Valiants were relegated into the Fourth Division . He made 46 appearances in 1965–66 , as new boss Jackie Mudie struggled to keep Vale off the foot of the table ; they eventually finished 19th , four points ahead of bottom club Wrexham . He played 45 games in 1966–67 , picking up attention from higher profile clubs . Blackpool . Alcock left Vale Park in August 1967 , when he was signed by Blackpool manager Stan Mortensen , whose side were then playing in the Second Division , for a fee of £30,000 , which was a Port Vale club record at the time . His new team missed out on promotion to the First Division in 1967–68 after they finished one point behind champions Ipswich Town and level on points with Queens Park Rangers , who had a superior goal average . They dropped to eighth in 1968–69 , before winning promotion as runners-up in 1969–70 under the stewardship of Les Shannon . However , new boss Bob Stokoe could not prevent the club dropping straight back out of the top-flight with a bottom-placed finish in 1970–71 . Alcock was though a member of the Blackpool team that won the 1971 Anglo-Italian Cup , beating Bologna 2–1 after extra time in the final at the Stadio Renato DallAra on 12 June 1971 . In the 1971–72 season he spent a short time on loan at Fourth Division club Bury , playing six league games and scoring one goal . Alcock played in the 1972 Anglo-Italian Cup , scoring in Blackpools 10–0 victory over Lanerossi Vicenza on 10 June 1971 at Bloomfield Road , en route to Blackpools appearance in the final . Alcock scored the Seasiders<nowiki></nowiki> goal as they lost out 3–1 to Roma at the Stadio Olimpico . Blackpool finished seventh in the second tier in 1972–73 , before posting a fifth-place finish in 1973–74 under Harry Potts ; they ended the campaign just two places and two points behind promoted Carlisle United . They then finished seventh in 1974–75 and tenth in 1975–76 . In December 1976 , he joined league rivals Blackburn Rovers on loan , playing three league and two FA Cup games . He played a total of 191 league games for the Seasiders , scoring 21 goals . Later career . He re-joined Port Vale in February 1977 , who were now managed by former teammate Roy Sproson . However he just played the one game in 1976–77 . He then spent a short period on loan with North American Soccer League club Portland Timbers , scoring two goals in seven appearances in 1977 . He returned to Burslem to replace an absent David Harris , and scored twice in three League Cup appearances in 1977–78 . He joined Fourth Division club Halifax Town in 1978 , and then later that same year moved into non-League football with Lancaster City , of the Northern Premier League , with whom he finished his playing career . Post-retirement . After retiring from football , Alcock became the licensee of the Blackpool Supporters Club at Bloomfield Road , before taking on similar positions at pubs in Burscough , Warton and then Wrea Green . Statistics . Source : Honours . Blackpool - Football League Second Division runner-up : 1969–70 - Anglo-Italian Cup winner : 1971 - Anglo-Italian Cup runner-up : 1972