A hat-trick or hat trick is the achievement of a generally positive feat three times in a match or another achievement based on the number three Origin The term first appeared in in cricket to describe H H Stephenson taking three wickets with three consecutive deliveries Fans held a collection for Stephenson and presented him with a hat bought with the proceeds The term was used in print for the first time in in the Chelmsford Chronicle The term was eventually adopted by many other sports including hockey association football Formula racing rugby and water polo Use Bat and ball games Baseball In the past the term was occasionally used to describe when a player struck out three times in a baseball game and the term golden sombrero was more commonly used when a player struck out four times in a game In recent years hat trick has been more often used to describe when a player hits three home runs in a game For example on August Toronto Blue Jays fans celebrated Edwin Encarnaci n’s third home run of the game by throwing hats onto the field similar to the tradition in ice hockey Cricket A hat-trick occurs in cricket when an individual bowler takes three wickets with consecutive deliveries in the same match Football codes Association football A hat-trick occurs in association football when a player scores three goals not necessarily consecutive in a single game whereas scoring two goals in a single match is called a brace In common with other official record-keeping rules all goals scored during the regulation minutes plus extra time if required are counted but goals in a penalty shootout are excluded from the tally The fastest recorded time to score a hat-trick is seconds a record set by Alex Torr in a Sunday league game in The previous record of seconds was held by Tommy Ross playing for Ross County against Nairn County on November The record of the youngest player ever to score a hat-trick was set by Ntinos Pontikas in while Pel in became the youngest to achieve a hat-trick in the FIFA World Cup The first hat-trick achieved in an international game was by Scottish player John McDougall against England on March German Erwin Helmchen scored official hat-tricks in his career with Pel having American player Bert Patenaude scored the first hat-trick in the FIFA World Cup against Paraguay in the inaugural event in Three hat-tricks have been scored in a World Cup final by Geoff Hurst for England in the final against West Germany by Carli Lloyd for the USA against Japan in the Women’s World Cup final and by Kylian Mbapp for France in the final against Argentina Lloyd’s was at minutes the fastest from kick-off in any World Cup match However the fastest World Cup hat-trick as measured by time between goals belongs to Fabienne Humm of Switzerland who scored in the th th and nd minutes against Ecuador in the group stage Traditionally a player who scores a hat-trick is allowed to keep the match ball as a memento Perfect hat-trick Football has also extended the term with a perfect hat-trick being when a player scores one right-footed goal one left-footed goal and one headed goal within one match October Christian Pulisic scored his first goals for Chelsea completing a perfect hat-trick in a away win against Burnley The hat-trick was the first of his career and he became the second American to achieve the feat in the Premier League after Clint Dempsey for Fulham in as well as the youngest hat-trick scorer in Chelsea’s history at the age of years and days He also became the first Chelsea player to score a perfect hat trick since Didier Drogba in Flawless hat-trick In Germany and Austria the term German lupenreiner Hattrick flawless hat-trick refers to when a player scores three goals in a row in one half without the half-time break or a goal scored by another player interrupting the performance Gaelic football In Gaelic football a hat-trick can refer to goals or to points scored Eoin Liston scored a second-half hat-trick in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final Michael Quinlivan scored a second-half hat-trick against Armagh in the final game of the National Football League to secure promotion to Division for Tipperary Jack McCaffrey’s total of in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final drawn game involved a classic hat-trick of points sent over the bar with fist and both feet Cillian O’Connor’s four goals accompanied by nine points in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-final at Croke Park broke the record set by Johnny Joyce of Dublin in and matched with by Rory Gallagher of Fermanagh in for the highest individual scorer in any championship football match David Clifford scored a hat-trick against Galway in the opening round of the National Football League Gridiron football The term hat-trick is only occasionally used in gridiron football usually for rhetorical flourish in sports writing Usually an offensive player scoring three touchdowns in a single game is awarded a hat-trick Additionally the term is applied to a defensive player often an edge rusher who in a single scrimmage play performs a sack which causes the quarterback to fumble and then recovers that fumble Rugby football In both codes of rugby football rugby union and rugby league a hat-trick is when a player scores three or more tries in a game In rugby union a related concept is that of a full house scoring a try conversion penalty goal and drop goal in a single game When a player scores two tries this is often referred to as a brace As with association football it is common to award the match ball to a player who scores a hat-trick Ken Irvine and Frank Burge both scored hat-tricks in Australian first grade rugby league Shaun Johnson scored a hat-trick in under minutes against the Canberra Raiders in and in the Rugby League World Cup Valentine Holmes scored a double…
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