Jack Eskridge, creator of the Dallas Cowboys' blue star logo design, died Monday at a Valley Falls, Kan., hospital.

Eskridge was the former equipment manager of the Cowboys.

Eskridge was one of coach Tom Landry's first hires in 1959, the year before the Cowboys' debut season

The Cowboys began with a white star, but Eskridge designed the white-bordered blue star.

Eskridge was 89.