Why is a 'hatrick' so called?

Question

In football, (soccer) mainly, and a player scores 3 goals,. why is it known as a hatrick? Something to do with 3 hats? lol :) An accurate explanation nets you a big fat 10pts.

Answer 1

In the Victorian era, the term "hat trick" referred to a common trick by magicians, where the magician used a top hat. At first, they would appear before the audience wearing the hat, which they would remove and put upside down on a nearby table (on stage). Later in the show, the magician would take out 3 rabbits, one after another, from the hat. In modern times, this phenomenon has largely referred to any three consecutive feats, goals, wickets etc. by the same player.

Answer 2

[Q] “What is the origin of the term hat trick, used to describe a series of three victories in sports?”

[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 3

It comes from cricket, when a bowler took 3 wickets in succesion he would tip his hat to the crowd who would throw coins in it. This was named a hat trick and has stood ever since for achievments in sport relating to 3 goals etc...

Answer 4

Another theory is that in Victorian times, when playing cricket, if a bowler got three batters out in a row, he would be eligle to remove his hat and get a collection of money from the audience in it.

Answer 5

i think it has something to do with cricket,in olden days when a bowler took three wickets,with three consecutive balls,he was given a new hat.hence the term hat trick.

Answer 6

a proper hat trick is one goal scored with a right foot shot then a left foot shot then finished off with a header.not always in that order.that is a true hat-trick.

Answer 7

It comes from the tradition, amongst "GENTLEMEN", - the scorer was GIVEN a new TOP HAT, if he achieved such a feat!