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The February 27, 1939 issue of Life featured a three-page article entitled "'Gibraltar of Grappling' Produces Another Great Oklahoma A&M Team." Only the month before, Life photographer Bernard Hoffman had arrived on campus with several cameras and countless rolls of film and flashbulbs to spend two full days with the team and coach Ed Gallagher. Eighteen months after these images were taken, the legendary coach died as the result of a nearly decade-long battle with Parkinson's Disease; Gallagher is still considered to be one of the greatest and most influential wrestling coaches of all time .
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