Has an AFL game ever ended 79-52?
Yes. AFL has seen a final score of 79-52 4 times. It first happened on September 2, 1939, when St Kilda beat Sydney, and most recently on July 5, 2020, when Richmond beat Melbourne.
That makes 79-52 the 947th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 80-52 has happened 7 times and 79-53 has happened 5 times. At one point the score disappeared for 60 years, between 1960 and 2020.