Has an AFL game ever ended 87-52?
It has. 87-52 has been a AFL final 3 times in 16,622 games. The first was Richmond beat St Kilda on August 28, 1920; the latest was Richmond beat Footscray on June 12, 2000.
That makes 87-52 the 1534th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 88-52 has happened 2 times and 87-53 has happened 2 times. At one point the score disappeared for 46 years, between 1954 and 2000.