Has an AFL game ever ended 48-35?
It has. 48-35 has been a AFL final 4 times in 16,622 games. The first was Melbourne beat St Kilda on July 23, 1910; the latest was Geelong beat Footscray on June 6, 1964.
That makes 48-35 the 947th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 49-35 has happened 1 times and 48-36 has happened 2 times. Nearly all of its occurrences fall between 1890 and 1919. At one point the score disappeared for 49 years, between 1915 and 1964.