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Published: 05/17/11 - 11:58am Written by Dick Pryor
Blubaugh2OKLAHOMA CITY - Olympic wrestling champion Doug Blubaugh, who won an NCAA wrestling championship for Oklahoma State in 1957, has died from injuries suffered in an alleged hit and run accident Monday night in Tonkawa.  The Ponca City native won an Olympic gold medal at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome.  Blubaugh later became wrestling coach at Indiana University.  He was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in 1979.