Has an AFL game ever ended 140-78?
It has. 140-78 has been a AFL final 3 times in 17,056 games. The first was Carlton beat Essendon on June 29, 1935; the latest was Footscray beat Sydney on April 8, 1990.
That makes 140-78 the 1600th most common final score out of 6,649 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 141-78 has happened 1 times and 140-79 has happened 1 times. At one point the score disappeared for 42 years, between 1948 and 1990.