Barry Hancock

Barry John Hancock (30 December 1938 – 10 September 2013) was an English footballer who played as an inside-forward. He played 24 league games in the English Football League for Port Vale and Crewe Alexandra from 1961 to 1965.

Career Hancock supported Port Vale since childhood and also spent matchdays working as a matchday programme seller at Vale Park. He managed to join the club as an amateur after a time with Birches Head R.C. He featured nine times at Vale Park in 1962–63, before scoring his first and only senior goal on 9 September 1963, in a 1–1 draw with Mansfield Town at Field Mill, in one of only five appearances for the "Valiants" in 1963–64; Hancock was released by manager Freddie Steele at the end of the season.

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1960–61 Third Division

1961–62 Third Division

1962–63 Third Division

1963–64 Third Division

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