Has an AFL game ever ended 72-47?
It has. 72-47 has been a AFL final 4 times in 16,622 games. The first was Geelong beat Collingwood on July 23, 1921; the latest was Geelong beat Footscray on May 12, 1979.
That makes 72-47 the 947th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 73-47 has happened 2 times and 72-48 has happened 5 times. At one point the score disappeared for 34 years, between 1930 and 1964.