Has an AFL game ever ended 97-68?
It has. 97-68 has been a AFL final 4 times in 16,622 games. The first was Richmond beat Carlton on May 8, 1920; the latest was Adelaide beat St Kilda on April 27, 2019.
That makes 97-68 the 947th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 98-68 has happened 4 times and 97-69 has happened 6 times. At one point the score disappeared for 72 years, between 1938 and 2010.