Has an AFL game ever ended 79-35?
It has. 79-35 has been a AFL final 3 times in 16,622 games. The first was Melbourne beat St Kilda on August 30, 1902; the latest was St Kilda beat Footscray on May 25, 1968.
That makes 79-35 the 1534th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 80-35 has happened never and 79-36 has happened 1 times. At one point the score disappeared for 47 years, between 1921 and 1968.