Has an AFL game ever ended 74-54?
It has. 74-54 has been a AFL final 6 times in 16,622 games. The first was Collingwood beat Richmond on May 24, 1919; the latest was St Kilda beat Gold Coast on July 30, 2011.
That makes 74-54 the 342nd most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 75-54 has happened 1 times and 74-55 has happened 6 times. At one point the score disappeared for 43 years, between 1968 and 2011.