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my point, assuming that I had one atall, was that I was surprised to learn otherwise.
you may cease looking for further corroboration.
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Ice hockey is "comparatively recent", dr. bill? (belM, where are you?) Surely it is old enough to have generalete word-coinages.
[to be editied upon checking some resources at home]
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Dear Keiva: The shoe skates necessary to play professional hockey were not available when I was ten years old. How vividly I remember my first pair of shoe skates, and how glady I said goodby to the old clamp on ones.
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Dear Keiva: I found a site indicating ice hockey is a hundred years older than I thought. But no reference to hat trick. http://www.gameofhockey.com/hockey-evidence.html
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The shoe skates necessary to play professional hockey were not available when I was ten years old.
The shoe skates necessary to play professional hockey with the intensity of today's game were not available when you were ten years old, Dr. Bill. The NHL dates back to 1917.
Not to mention that it is entirely possible that the expression could have been inherited from field hockey.
Note: I am NOT disputing the cricket origin of the term 'hat trick'. I am merely saying that there is no reason that the term could NOT have come from elsewhere.
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Well, folks, I never heard of it as a Tommy Dorsey tune. I vaguely remember Bill Haley having recorded it, and I could probably dig out his cover if I could be bothered going downstairs and digging through the collection of moldy vinyl platters sandwiched between fading and disintegrating slices of cardboard that my record collection has become. I never knew it was a dance.
BUT, and this is a very small and totally insignificant "but", I had seen it used in economics. Once. Precisely.
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