Why is scoring 3 goals in football called a hat trick?

Answer 1

A hat-trick in sports is associated with succeeding at anything three times in three consecutive attempts. In North America it is often rendered as hat trick, with no hyphen. (The Oxford English Dictionary has it unhyphenated and gives a variety of examples published in the 19th and 20th centuries both with and without the hyphen.)

The term was originally used in cricket, and was connected with the custom of giving a hat or cap to a bowler who achieved the feat of taking three wickets in a row. It may be connected with the concept of giving someone their "cap", i.e. acknowledging them as a regular member of a representative team. Another school of thought mentions that a bowler was challenged if he could take three in three. Hats were passed around to collect the odds. The bowler succeeded and collected the large amount of cash. Thus the term hat-trick could have been also derived from this event.

Answer 2

NO. A hat trick is 3 goals by the same player in Ice Hockey.

Answer 3

The term "Hat-Trick" originally came from the sport of Hockey and has since been used by other sports including Cricket and Football to denote scoring three times or taking three wickets in a row. When this happened the Club used to present the person with a "Hat or a Special Cap" to commemorate this persons achievement....strange but true !

Answer 4

It's almost magical to score 3 goals in a match, you know, just like pulling out a rabbit from a magician's hat. Pure magic!

Answer 5

Think it comes from Cricket actually. Where a bowler that took three wickets in three consecutive balls was awarded a hat.

I presume the meaning drifted over to common usage in footy sometime later.

About time we got one in the World Cup 2006 !!
Cheers

Answer 6

football dont have goals