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Team 1 2 3 Final
Melbourne 4.3 5.7 7.11 8.14 (62)
Collingwood 0.0 1.0 2.0 2.2 (14)

The 1960 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Melbourne Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on September 1960. It was the 64th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1960 VFL season. The match, attended by 97,457 spectators, was won by Melbourne by a margin of 48 points, marking that club's 11th premiership victory.

This was Melbourne's seventh premiership appearance in successive seasons, having won all these contests except the 1954 VFL Grand Final and 1958 VFL Grand Final.

Teams

Melbourne
B: John Beckwith Tassie Johnson Trevor Johnson
HB: Geoff Case John Lord Ian Thorogood
C: Brian Dixon Laurie Mithen Bryan Kenneally
HF: Geoff Tunbridge Clyde Laidlaw Hassa Mann
F: Bob Johnson Alan Rowarth Frank 'Bluey' Adams
Foll: Len Mann Ron Barassi (c) Ian Ridley
Reserve(s): Brian Leahy Ray Nilsson
Coach: Norm Smith
Collingwood
B: Ron Reeves Peter Rosenbrock Mick Twomey
HB: Kevin Rose Bill Thripp Mike Delanty
C: Brian Gray John Henderson Errol Hutchesson
HF: Ken Turner Murray Weideman (c) Brian Beers
F: Graeme Fellowes Ray Willett Keith Burns
Foll: Ray Gabelich Barry Harrison Ron O'Dwyer
Reserve(s): Ian Brewer Bert Chapman
Coach: Phonse Kyne
  • Umpire: Jack Irving

References

  • AFL Tables: 1960 Grand Final
  • The Official statistical history of the AFL 2004
  • Ross, J. (ed), 100 Years of Australian Football 1897-1996: The Complete Story of the AFL, All the Big Stories, All the Great Pictures, All the Champions, Every AFL Season Reported, Viking, (Ringwood), 1996. ISBN 0-670-86814-0

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