Why a three goal score called 'hat-trick'?

Answer 1

[A] It comes from the English game of cricket and refers to a bowler who takes three wickets with three successive balls. For those more familiar with baseball, this is an impressive achievement, similar to a baseball pitcher striking out three batters in a row, but much less common. It seems to have been the custom in the nineteenth century for such a paragon of the art to be awarded a new hat by his club as a mark of his success. However, it is sometimes also said that the phrase alludes to a distinctly more plebeian reward in which the bowler was permitted to take his hat around the crowd for a collection (not necessarily a bowler hat, of course: that was named after a couple of completely different chaps, Messrs Thomas and William Bowler, hatmakers). Hat trick was first recorded in print in the 1870s, but has since been widened to apply to any sport in which the person competing carries off some feat three times in quick succession, such as scoring three goals in one game of soccer.

Answer 2

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 3

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 4

Traditionally, and I believe it started in America, and not neccesarily in the sport football (soccer), when a player scored three goals spectators would throw their hats onto the field in celebration. I think it may have originated in hockey. Here is what wikipedia has to say, "In both field hockey and ice hockey a hat-trick is when a player scores three goals in a single game. The term was brought to ice hockey in the 1940s when Sammy Taft, a Toronto hatter, gave free hats to Maple Leafs players who scored three goals in a game." http://www.answers.com/topic/hat-trick

Answer 5

This term is originally from cricket, c.1877. Taking three wickets on three bowls allegedly entitled the bowler to receive a hat from his club commemorating the feat. By 1909 it was being used in other sports.

Answer 6

The truth has NOTHING to do with cricket!!

Ages ago, when all men hats all the time - bowler, trilby or cap depending on your station in life - when a player scored three times in one match the club bought him a new hat!

Simple as that.

Answer 7

It comes from a tradition in cricket where if a bowler bowls out 3 times in a row he goes round the spectators with a hat and people throw in coins.

Answer 8

its from cricket were if a bowler succsesfully bowls out three batters in a row they where allowed to go round the crowd with there hat for spectators to throw coins in. Defo

Answer 9

its just called like that


another example is when a person bangs 3 times in one day...........



..........its a Hat-Trick LOL

Answer 10

Stop trying to make cricket interesting