What is the origin of the term "hat trick" ?
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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.
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Makes you wonder, doesn't it? But there's actually a simple explanation.\n\nFrom Neil Cohen's article "How to Score a Game," from John Thorn and Pete Palmer's Total Baseball, we discover that Henry Chadwick, one of the first newspaper journalists to take a literary interest in baseball, built upon a scoring technique devised by fellow New York journalist M. J. Kelly. "Chadwick created a minutely detailed scorecard so he would have a point of reference and recollection when he wrote his articles about the game," Cohen writes. He adds that Chadwick invented the modern boxscore.\n\nChadwick also invented the system we use to indicate fielders (pitcher=1, shortstop=6, right field=9, etc.), and the abbreviations we use for events (HR, HBP, BB, so on). Chadwick needed S for sacrifice, so he chose K for strikeout - K being the last letter of "struck," which was then in more common use than the term "strikeout." \n\nSome people carry it further, using a K for a swinging strikeout, and a backward K for being caught looking. Some folks go with the more intuitive "SO," but this creates confusion with the abbreviation for "shutout," so "K" has remained the abbreviation of choice.
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Hoodwinked came from the 16th century when "wink" meant simply to close ones eyes.  Many people wore hoods, and so when thieves robbed them,  the thieves would have the victims close their eyes and pull their hoods down.
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"mad as a Hatter" came from the fact the hat makers used mercury in their profession. Mercury is a neurotoxin and many hatters became "mad" / insane from this.
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As far as I can understand, not in Britain. The first time I'm aware of is when Jesper Olsen (Ajax, later Man Utd.) passed the ball to Johan Cruyff in a game against Helmond Sport, sometime in the late 70's
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The first hat trick is taken by\n\nFrederick Spofforth\n\nAustralia\n\nPlayer profile\n\nFull name Frederick Robert Spofforth\nBorn September 9, 1853, Balmain, Sydney, New South Wales\nDied June 4, 1926, Ditton Hill Lodge, Long Ditton, Surrey, England (aged 72 years 268 days)\nMajor teams Australia, New South Wales, Victoria\nBatting style Right-hand bat\nBowling style Right-arm fast-medium
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i havent been to too many games, but i've seen it done 3 times.\n\nin 1998 Valeri Kamensky of Colorado\nlast season i saw some guy from Edmonton do it, cant remember his name though\nand last week i saw a Nils Ekman of Pittsburgh score a natural hat trick in 4 minutes and 10 seconds!  FREAKIN AWESOME!!
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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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A cap isn't an acronym for any word. It simply means anytime a player has worn a jersey representing their country on the field. Like anytime Ronaldinho wears a Brazil jersey he recieves one cap and the same thing when David Beckham wears a England jersey. Back in the day players in England would actually recieve real caps (hats) just for memorbillia purposes but they don't hand them out anymore. I don't know why.....
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These guys are all being literal.\n\nRallying in baseball is when a team strings together some hits and scores some runs, usually when they're behind late in a game.\n\nFans sometimes wear what's come to be called a rally cap for this.  A rally cap is basically a baseball cap that's been turned inside out and flipped into some completely ridiculous position on the head.\n\nExample:  The Yankees headed to the 9th inning trailing by 2 runs... but rallied in the 9th to send the game into extra innings.  See what I mean?
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The cricket term hat trick appeared first in British print in 1858. It refers to one player scoring three times in a row. In cricket jargon, one bowler takes three wickets with three balls in a row. That player was then permitted to pass around his hat and collect a few modest "rewards" such as pennies. So runs one story. Another says the cricket club bought the hat-tricking player a new hat. There are many versions of how the hat trick became connected to hockey, most of which don't have supporting evidence.  The most common, however, says that a Toronto haberdasher presented a new hat to any player who scored three goals. It was also claimed that the Biltmore Hat Company, who sponsored the Guelph Biltmores of the Ontario Hockey League, began the free hat trick.
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it's anything in sports done 3 times\n\n\nA 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.)\n\nThe 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.
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Guillermo Stabile of Argentina scored the first-ever World Cup hat-trick on 19th July 1930 against Mexico in Montevideo. His team won 6-3.
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The first bowler to take a hat-trick in ODIs was Pakistani Jalaluddin(vs. Australia at Hyderabad on 20th September 1982.
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Brits actually invented the word. "Soccer," when it first appeared in the 1890s, was spelled "socca," which was short for "association" or "association football," meaning football played according to the rules laid down by the British Football Association. It was also called "socker" until the current form "soccer" appeared around 1895.
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When a goal is scored against an opposing team, the home team will chant "Sieve."  A sieve is a colander or strainer, or something that easily lets things through it (like a bad goalie!)\n\nAmerican College Hockey is primarily where this tradition started.  For example, the Minnesota Golden Gopher mascot, Goldy Gopher, used to be able to simply point at the opposing netminder, getting the entire crowd to chant "Sieve" at his whim.
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THE HAT LAW (beeep! beeep! Move it Hat Guy!)\nTHE YOU BIG BULLY LAW (try & knock me down)\nTHE HELP I'M A BUG LAW (SPLAT! *Help, I'm a bug!*)\n\nYour question rocks because all you hear from books and teachers is (use Peanuts TV show teacher voice here)\n\n"bwah bwah INERTIA bwah bwah tends to remain in motion bwah bwah equal and opposite reaction bwah bwah bwah"\n\nI think this is because they do not really understand it.\n\nYou know who understands this stuff by the seat of their pants? Bikers! Harley, Suzuki, Honda, you name it, they totally get it.\n\nBut you have asked what is so QUESTION NUMBER ONE in physics. \n\nHere's a way to remember and understand through a totally whack story.\n\nIt took a super-genius, I mean way smarter than Einstein, to figure it out. A good old farm boy, astrologer, magician & alchemist, religious fanatic, mathematician and all around kook. Yes sirree, Sir Isaac Newton.\n \nWell we all know what a force is, it is a sort of push or pull -- think of it as something that changes or *tries to change* the motion of stuff.\n\nNewton first figured out that if you leave a thing alone, or if the pushes and pulls on it cancel out, then it will sit there like a lump. This is called INERTIA, Like those drivers wearing hats, and like sit there after the light has already turned green two minutes ago.\n\nOr else a thing will keep moving in the same straight line direction and speed like those drivers wearing hats who go 40 mph on the expressway with their turn signal blinking on and on. This is also INERTIA and is also known as "THE HAT LAW".\n\nIt comes from the Latin words meaning artless -- not like painting "art" but an art like a skill. LIke if you ask your buddy to help you change your tire and he is like "dude, I would but I so do not know how.. I am artless.. sorry man"\n\nAll was well until he noticed that things move faster in an amount equal to how much you bully them or push them around. Twice the force, twice the fasterness and fasterness (also known as acceleration). This is called the "YOU BIG BULLY LAW".\n\nThen he discovered a fly in the ointment. His HAT and BULLY laws didn't really explain all that much. Something was gumming up this beautiful theory. We call it MASS and it is still an unknown mystery as to what it really is. So we vaguely call it the amount of stuff or matter in a thing.\n\nSo he found out that for a certain force the faster-isity (acceleration) is cut in half if you double the mass. The bully has to push twice as hard to fasterize two little kids. So he was like "I'll just add that in, and all will be cool". The "YOU BIG BULLY LAW" and "THE HAT LAW" totally did it all. Let's hear it, big-time: Boo Yah!\n\nBut then Newton had a road accident. He was gunning his Harley over London bridge at like 250 when a bug hit him in the mouth and knocked out one of his wooden teeth. He was all "Why am I so in pain?". And the bug as it squooshed said "Help! I'm a bug!"\n\nSo spitting out the splinters of his wooden tooth and the splattered bug, he had this revelation. He realized that because he was moving so fast, and the bug slowed down so fast, that even a miniscule mass like a bug was like taking a hammer to his tooth.\n\nHe noticed that the force was equal to the mass of the bug times the speed of impact all happening in a brief moment. \n\nSince Newton spoke Latin (he was the love child of Joe Newton and an Italian governess) he wrote "Fastus buggus ina momentum hurtus like crazy." Today we call this "momentum" (really) It is just "mass times speed" or "force times a small moment of time".\n\nAnd he realized that the bug smashed up his tooth, but also that the bug was squashed (like a bug) because they were trading off the EXACT same amount of momentum. \n\nThe force on the tooth by the bug in the moment of time w