When you score 3 goals/points, Why is it called a hat-trick?

Answer 1

Hat trick I'm sure most people know the meaning of. The origin is the early cricketing practise of giving a new hat to a bowler who gets three wickets with three consecutive balls. Incidently, footballers who score three goals get to keep the match ball. Maybe that should be a ball trick?

Answer 2

The term comes from cricket. A Bowler who took three wickets with 3 consecutive balls was awarded a top hat to mark the achievement. The term has spread to other sports to signify scoring three goals, tries etc.

Answer 3

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.

Another claim of where the term hat trick comes from, is that if a bowler took three wickets in three consecutive deliveries it was custom just to remove his hat and use it to collect money from spectators.

Answer 4

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.

Another claim of where the term hat trick comes from, is that if a bowler took three wickets in three consecutive deliveries it was custom just to remove his hat and use it to collect money from spectators.

Answer 5

They used to get a hat every time the player scored three times.

Answer 6

because in olden times if some one scored 3 wickets in cricket the crowd would pass around a hat and everyone would put money in it for the team.now used in every sport.a hat trick.

Answer 7

It came into use after HH Stephenson took three wickets in three balls for the all-England eleven against the twenty-two of Hallam at the Hyde Park ground, Sheffield in 1858.

See the reference section of the link below

Answer 8

hat trick
n. Sports
1. Three goals scored by one player in one game, as in ice hockey.
2. Three wickets taken in cricket by a bowler in three consecutive balls.
3. Three consecutive wins or outstanding accomplishments by the same individual, such as a jockey in horse racing.

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[From the hat with which the feat was traditionally rewarded in cricket.]

Answer 9

Back in the mists of time you were awarded a cap, now you just get to keep the match ball :o(

Answer 10

because they didn't know what else to call it