Has an AFL game ever ended 71-64?
It has. 71-64 has been a AFL final 4 times in 16,622 games. The first was Footscray beat Fitzroy on May 22, 1948; the latest was Fremantle beat Geelong on July 29, 2023.
That makes 71-64 the 947th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 72-64 has happened 6 times and 71-65 has happened 5 times. At one point the score disappeared for 60 years, between 1963 and 2023.