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{{short description|English footballer}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name           = C. McAlpine
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| position       = [[Defender (association football)|Left-back]]
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| years1         = 1890–1892| clubs1 = [[Port Vale F.C.|Burslem Port Vale]]| caps1 = 20| goals1 = 0
| years2         = 1892| clubs2 = [[Darlington F.C.|Darlington]]| caps2 = | goals2 = 
| years3         = 1892–1893| clubs3 = [[Port Vale F.C.|Burslem Port Vale]]| caps3 = 10| goals3 = 0
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'''C. McAlpine''' was an English  [[Association football|footballer]] who played for [[Port Vale F.C.|Burslem Port Vale]].

==Career==
McAlpine joined [[Port Vale F.C.|Burslem Port Vale]] in December 1890, making his debut at the [[Athletic Ground (Cobridge)|Athletic Ground]] in a 3–0 [[Exhibition game|friendly]] defeat to [[Potteries derby|rivals]] [[Stoke City F.C.|Stoke]] on 20 December 1890.<ref name="kent">{{cite book|last=Kent|first=Jeff|title=Port Vale Personalities|publisher=Witan Books|page=189|year=1996|isbn=0-9529152-0-0}}</ref> He was a first-team regular and helped the club share the North Staffordshire Charity Challenge Cup in 1891 and win the Staffordshire Charity Cup in 1892.<ref name="kent"/> He managed to sign for [[Darlington F.C.|Darlington]] and Vale in the summer of 1892 and was obliged to play for the former as he had given them his signature first; he also picked up a six-week [[Suspension (punishment)|suspension]] for his error.<ref name="kent"/> He returned to Vale in October 1892. He was once more a first-team regular, playing ten [[Football League Second Division|Second Division]] games in [[1892–93 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season|1892–93]], before leaving for good in February 1893.<ref name="kent"/>

==Career statistics==
Source:<ref>{{ENFA}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
!rowspan="2"|Club
!rowspan="2"|Season
!rowspan="2"|Division
!colspan="2"|League
!colspan="2"|[[FA Cup]]
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|-
!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals
|-
|rowspan="3"|[[Port Vale F.C.|Burslem Port Vale]]||1891–92||[[Midland Football League (1889)|Midland League]]||20||0||1||0||0||0||21||0
|-
|[[1892–93 Burslem Port Vale F.C. season|1892–93]]||[[Football League Second Division|Second Division]]||10||0||0||0||0||0||10||0
|-
!colspan="2"|Total
!30!!0!!1!!0!!0!!0!!31!!0
|}

==Honours==
'''Burslem Port Vale'''
*North Staffordshire Charity Challenge Cup: 1891 (shared)
*Staffordshire Charity Cup: 1892

==References==
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[[Category:English men's footballers]]
[[Category:Men's association football defenders]]
[[Category:Port Vale F.C. players]]
[[Category:Darlington F.C. players]]
[[Category:English Football League players]]
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