Has an AFL game ever ended 71-38?
Yes. AFL has seen a final score of 71-38 3 times. It first happened on August 18, 1917, when Carlton beat Geelong, and most recently on May 12, 2019, when Hawthorn beat GWS.
That makes 71-38 the 1534th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 72-38 has happened 3 times and 71-39 has happened 6 times. At one point the score disappeared for 56 years, between 1963 and 2019.