1960 VFL season
| 1960 VFL Premiership season | |
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| Teams | 12 |
| Premiers |
Melbourne (11th premiership) |
| Minor premiers |
Melbourne (8th minor premiership) |
| Consolation series |
South Melbourne (3rd Consolation series win) |
| Matches played | 112 |
| Highest attendance | 97,457 |
| Coleman Medallist | Ron Evans (Essendon) |
| Brownlow Medallist | John Schultz (Footscray) |
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The 1960 Victorian Football League season was the 64th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.
In 1960, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus two substitute players, known as the 19th man and the 20th man. A player could be substituted for any reason; however, once substituted, a player could not return to the field of play under any circumstances.
Teams played each other in a home-and-away season of 18 rounds; matches 12 to 18 were the "home-and-way reverse" of matches 1 to 7.
Once the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1960 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the Page-McIntyre System.
Round 1 of the 1960 competition was played over Easter long weekend, with three matches on Easter Saturday (16 April) and three matches on Easter Monday (18 April). Round 2 of the competition was also scheduled for a long weekend, with four matches scheduled for the Saturday (23 April) and two for the Monday (Anzac Day, 25 April).
The four matches on Saturday 23 April were postponed because of the extremely wet conditions. Despite pressure from the Victorian Premier, Henry Bolte, the VFL refused to play the four postponed matches on Anzac Day (which, by custom, would have contributed to patriotic funds), and scheduled the postponed matches for the following Saturday (30 April). As a consequence of this delay all of the season's matches from Round 3 to the Grand Final were played a week later than had been originally scheduled.
The night series were held under the floodlights at Lake Oval, South Melbourne, for the teams (5th to 12th on ladder) out of the finals at the end of the season.
Final: South Melbourne 10.12 (70) defeated Hawthorn 8.11 (59)
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