1960 VFL Grand Final

Melbourne	Collingwood
8.14 (62)	2.2 (14)

Date

24 September 1960

Stadium

Melbourne Cricket Ground

Attendance

97,457

← 1959

VFL Grand Final

1961 →

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 24 September 1960 in extremely wet conditions due to persistent rain during the previous week. 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 despite the conditions by 97,457 spectators, was won by Melbourne by a margin of 48 points, marking that club's 11th premiership victory.

Collingwood’s score stands as the lowest it has kicked since the sixth round of 1900,^[1] and its sixth-lowest ever. Their four scoring shots is the second-lowest by any team since the tenth round of 1908, with only Fitzroy against Footscray in 1953 having fewer. Even the two goals the Magpies did score were regarded as very lucky. One was from a long kick that just made the distance, and the other was after an easy mark by Melbourne full back Tassie Johnson was dropped in the goal square.^[2]

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:	30 John Beckwith	8 Tassie Johnson	14 Trevor Johnson
HB:	7 Geoff Case	4 John Lord	26 Ian Thorogood
C:	9 Brian Dixon	11 Laurie Mithen	22 Bryan Kenneally
HF:	23 Geoff Tunbridge	35 Clyde Laidlaw	29 Hassa Mann
F:	16 Bob Johnson	2 Alan Rowarth	6 Frank 'Bluey' Adams
Foll:	34 Len Mann	31 Ron Barassi (c)	24 Ian Ridley
Reserve(s):	21 Brian Leahy	38 Ray Nilsson
Coach:	Norm Smith

Collingwood
B:	16 Ron Reeves	27 Peter Rosenbrock	25 Mick Twomey
HB:	29 Kevin Rose	21 Bill Thripp	5 Mike Delanty
C:	4 Brian Gray	10 John Henderson	12 Errol Hutchesson
HF:	11 Ken Turner	1 Murray Weideman (c)	20 Brian Beers
F:	28 Graeme Fellowes	8 Ray Willett	19 Keith Burns
Foll:	13 Ray Gabelich	32 Barry Harrison	30 Ron O'Dwyer
Reserve(s):	6 Ian Brewer	37 Bert Chapman
Coach:	Phonse Kyne

Umpire: Jack Irving

Scoreboard

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)

Statistics

Goalkickers

Melbourne:

F Adams 2
B Johnson 2
H Mann 2
A Rowarth 1
G Tunbridge 1

Collingwood:

R Gabelich 1
J Henderson 1

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

↑ Lowest Scores
↑ “Melbourne Proves It Greatness”, in The Age, 27 September 1960, p. 24

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Melbourne Football Club 1960 VFL Premiers

Melbourne 8.14 (62) defeated Collingwood 2.2 (14), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground

Captain: 31. Barassi 2. Rowarth 4. Lord 6. Adams 7. Case 8. Tassie Johnson 9. Dixon 11. Mithen 14. Trevor Johnson 16. B. Johnson 21. Leahy 22. Kenneally 23. Tunbridge 24. Ridley 26. Thorogood 29. H. Mann 30. Beckwith 34. L. Mann 35. Laidlaw 38. Nilsson

Coach: Smith

Melbourne Football Club

History Club honours Current squad Players Coaches Captains Honour board Awards Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Medal Leading goalkickers Captain: Nathan Jones Coach: Paul Roos Nickname: Demons

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Awards	Copeland Trophy

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