What is a "hat trick"?
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A hat trick originated with Cricket. It is described as  "It comes from the English game of cricket and refers to a bowler who takes three wickets with three successive balls." on http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-hat1.htm.\n\nNowadays it is more widely recognized in hockey where wilopedia describes it as :\n\n"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. It is not certain whether he picked up this practice from cricket."\n\nIt should also be noted that the term natural hat trick refers to either of two feats: when a player scores three goals in the same period, or when a player scores three goals consecutively.
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To talk through one's hat was a widespread phrase by the 1880's meaning to talk nonsense although it initially meant to lie.\n\nThe origins of the phrase are unclear. The two most common theories are that it referred to men in church who held their hats over their faces while pretending to pray. It might also be a reference to the emptiness of the hat above the head implying the speaker is speaking with an empty head. It might also be a reference to "he's talking off the top of his head" meaning without preparation or references.
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How about the trust catch thing.  Someone stands up higher than everyone else and the group or just one or two catch the person as they fall?  I don't know.
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good point... i've never realised this before but any time i've tried to borrow a guy's hat (friend, boyfriend or brother) and I always get my head snapped off...\n\nstrange....
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Geoff Hurst scored 3 goals in the World Cup Finals match in 1966. He is the only person in history to score a hat trick in the deciding match. One of the goals, the first in extratime which cannoned off the crossbar and downwards, remains controversial to this day, with the Germans insisting the ball never crossed the line.
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A heading maybe ?\n\nChapeau means hat so...my guess !
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it means how many international games a player has played\n\nActually cap is an abbreviation for Country APpearance..\ncaps is Country APpearanceS..\nbut there are arguments about the origin of the word caps..\n\nI've been told that the term "cap" refers to an old tradition of exchanging hats/caps between players of opposing nations at a friendly match. Thus, the number of "caps" a person accumulated was equal to the number of international matches a person had played in.
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Liverpool, when England beat Germany 5-1. Michael Owen got a hat trick, Steven Gerrard got one, as did Emile Heskey.
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Excellent question.  I take my hat off to you.
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thats when one player scores three goals in one match. hat-trick.\nIn most professional games the scorer of the hat-trick is allowed to return home with the match ball as a souvenir.\n\nSome regard a "true", or "perfect" hat-trick as one where the player scores with both feet and their head in the same match (or less commonly by a header, leg shot, and penalty or free kick), though this is obviously very rare. The most common definition of a "true" hat-trick is where a player scores three goals in the same half of the match. Yet another definition, known in Germany, Belgium and Norway, is that the player scores three goals in the same net without anyone else scoring between the player's first and third goal, a "flawless" hat-trick.\n\nScoring two goals in the same match is also commonly known as a "brace".
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T.J. Matthews, Australia took two hat tricks in the same test - each innings. 1912 Australia v. South Africa, Old Trafford. \n\nOther bowlers who have taken two test hat tricks in their career are:\n\nH. Trumble, Australia, 2 hat tricks\nWasim Akram, Pakistan, 2 hat tricks
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PULL..HITING THE BALL ITS SIDEWAYS....LIKE SLAPPING ONES FACE.\n\nHOOK..HITTING THE BALL UNDERNETH.\nIF YOU HIT THE BALL  OVER THE BOWLER'S HEAD, ITS CALLED "STRAIGHT HOOK"
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don't listen to Georgie Porgie hes way off the hat tricks have been around many many years before Gordie Howe played the game and his name is Gordie not Goldie. a hat trick is when someone scores 3 goals in a game and the best player of all time you would want if you needed the goal really badly is Maurice "The Rocket" Richard. Gordie Howe didn't score that many hat tricks in his career he had 801 goals but also played in professional hockey till he was 52 years old.\n\nGO HABS GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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OLEG SALENKO - 5 GOALS ...Russia against Cameroon - 1994.\n\nif u meant in the world cup final , its GEOFF HURST , ENGLAND v germany ,1966 ..only player to have a hat trick in any WC final
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I hope it's 3-3....\na hat-trick for Rooney and a hat-trick for Lampard..\n\np.s. I play fantasy football..and guess what?...I've got \n         Lamps and Roo!!!!
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SIMPLE.\nSIXTH BALL OF 'X'S OVER..1 WIC.\nNEXT OVER FIRST BALL 'X' GETS 1 WIC. THE INNINGS ENDS AS THE LAST MAN GETS OUT.\n'X' GETS HAT TRICK WIC, IN HIS FIRST BALL OF THE FIRST OVER OF THE NEXT INNINGS.
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Best part? A Gordie Howe Hat Trick: a fight, a goal, and an assist.  However, I think the only player that can pull that off now is Bertuzzi.