Has an AFL game ever ended 65-52?
It has. 65-52 has been a AFL final 6 times in 16,622 games. The first was Sydney beat Essendon on July 20, 1912; the latest was Sydney beat Essendon on May 9, 1959.
That makes 65-52 the 342nd most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 66-52 has happened 1 times and 65-53 has happened 3 times. At one point the score disappeared for 30 years, between 1925 and 1955.