October 16, 1960 Elvis breaks his finger playing touch football at Graceland. Elvis was first treated first at Campbell Clinic, where doctors decided to transfer him to the hospital because they didn’t have enough space to accommodate the anticipated large number of visitors. His touch football teammates and Anita Wood, disk jockey and Elvis’ frequent companion when he is in Memphis, accompanied him to the hospital.
October 16, 1960 Elvis having his blood taken after breaking his pinky finger while playing football.
Elvis spends one night in Hospital, declaring ‘I don’t have any business in a Hospital’ and checking out the following morning. Elvis said, ‘I don’t mind hospitals – this one is really fine – but I don’t have any business here. Things like this happen every day. I’m ready to get out of here’. To prove his point he accommodated a student nurse by signing his autograph with his right hand – the one on which the little finger was broken.
Explaining how he came to break his finger, Elvis said ‘I got my man, too – and he was just a step or two away from a touchdown. I dived for him, see, and after tagging him my hand landed in some mud and buried up in it’.
‘At first I didn’t notice it – it didn’t hurt me at all – until one of the fellows told me the little finger was bent all the way over the other fingers’. No, it won’t affect my strumming a guitar.
I don’t know how long I’ll have to wear the cast – just a few days, I think’.
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