Has an AFL game ever ended 61-52?
It has. 61-52 has been a AFL final 3 times in 16,622 games. The first was St Kilda beat Footscray on August 16, 1930; the latest was Hawthorn beat Richmond on May 17, 1969.
That makes 61-52 the 1534th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 62-52 has happened never and 61-53 has happened 5 times. At one point the score disappeared for 27 years, between 1930 and 1957.