Also in 1959 Blubaugh won a Pan-American Games Gold Medal before he made the 1960 Olympic team.

While a student at OSU, Blubaugh was initiated as a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity; in January 2011, he was inducted into the ΤΚΕ Oklahoma Hall of Fame.

[1] He resided in Tonkawa, Oklahoma, and continued to be an ambassador for the sport of wrestling until his death in a traffic accident on May 16, 2011.

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