Has an AFL game ever ended 74-56?
It has. 74-56 has been a AFL final 4 times in 16,622 games. The first was Fitzroy beat Geelong on July 18, 1908; the latest was Hawthorn beat West Coast on April 25, 2009.
That makes 74-56 the 947th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 75-56 has happened 5 times and 74-57 has happened 3 times. At one point the score disappeared for 58 years, between 1951 and 2009.