Talk:Hat-trick

Taft

I noticed someone added a story about the term "hat trick" being coined by a Canadian called Sammy Taft. A bit of searching turned up a lot of hits for this story. Mr Taft allegedly coined the term in the 1930s. However, it was in use in cricket in the 19th century, so it's safe to say that the Sammy Taft story is completely apocryphal. --dmmaus 11:06, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

It now says "It is not certain whether he picked up this practice from cricket". An amusing story if he devised exactly the same term and concept independently, but also highly unlikely.

Can someone please provide some documentation concerning Taft? I also found this information on the hat-trick in hockey: "The term "Hat Trick" is traced back to the Guelph "Biltmores" of the Ontario Major Junior "A" league of the 1930's who were sponsored by the Biltmore Hat Company.

If a Guelph player was to score 3 goals in a game, the company would give them a new men's hat of their choice from the show room. The fans also began the tradition of throwing their hats onto the ice after the man had scored his third goal of the game." - Jim Bunting. Toronto. "

Darts entry is problematic

Firstly.The darts entry says "A hat-trick in darts is a score of three consecutive bullseyes, also known as the "Alan Evans Shot", after Alan Evans scored three bulleyes during a match on numerous occasions." The reference has a significantly different description of the Allan Evans Shot. It says "... refers to the “Alan Evans Shot” (three bullseyes) when a player requires a checkout of 150." (my bolding). Scoring three bullseyes during the game is not a hat-trick, but scoring three bulls to end the game is. Secondly, the image that has been added shows three bulls, but if it is not an image of a score that ended a game, it is not an image of the Evans shot as defined by the reference. Moriori (talk) 20:51, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

How to link all hat-trick's in your sport? How to use the wikipedia tools to automatically bring all hat-tricks together?

I'm into the WAFCON - Women =African Football Cup of Nations.

Ghizlane Chebbak did a hat-trick at the WAFCON 2024 = 3 scores in 1 match.

So, how do we bring all these hat-tricks together?

There is mention of hat-tricks on certain pages of - especially soccer tournaments - like FIFA UEFA Cups, FIFA World Cups. Or pages on some football star players - their hat-tricks are mentioned there. But, how do we bring them together. If possible in an automated way using tools developed by the ICT programmers of the Wikipedia / Wikimedia foundation?

A possible answer: using wikipedia "Categories". That tool is explained here: Help:Category.

How does that work? On an article where there's a hat-trick mentioned, click edit and go to the bottem and leave the code: SquareBracketOpen SquareBracketOpen Category:Hat-trick SquareBracketClose SquareBracketClose.

And you will see that at the bottem of the page there is that categorie added and when you click it, the wikipedia code automatically generates a page with all the pages where that category has been added., so you get a page that's automatically generated with all the hat-tricks.

[[Category:Hat-trick]]

Looking forward to your suggestions and to see the progress, cheers from Brussels, SvenAERTS (talk) 12:24, 29 July 2025 (UTC)