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| Date | 24 September 1960 | |||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Melbourne Cricket Ground | |||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 97,457 | |||||||||||||||
The1960 VFL Grand Final was anAustralian rules football game contested between theMelbourne Football Club andCollingwood Football Club, held at theMelbourne Cricket Ground inMelbourne on 24 September 1960 in extremely wet conditions due to persistent rain during the previous week. It was the 63rd annualGrand Final of theVictorian Football League, staged to determine thepremiers for the1960 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 round 6,1900,[1] and its sixth-lowest ever. Their four scoring shots is the second-lowest by any team since round 12,1908 (the lowest being Fitzroy in round 5,1953). 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 the1954 VFL Grand Final and1958 VFL Grand Final.
    Melbourne |  Collingwood |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | Final |
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| Melbourne | 4.3 | 5.5 | 7.12 | 8.14 (62) |
| Collingwood | 0.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 2.2 (14) |
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