In his first season at UCLA, Foster earned first-team Freshman All-America honors for his exploits ... Foster finished the year with 673 yards, the most ever by a UCLA true freshman ... He was the first true freshman to lead the team in rushing since Skip Hicks in 1993 and the first true freshman since Hicks to rush for over 100 yards twice in the same season ... On the year, he was the team’s leading rusher with his 673 yards and averaged a team-best 5.3 yards per attempt ...

Foster wrote his name into Bruin lore by scoring all four touchdowns (three rushing and one receiving) in UCLA’s 34-17 victory over USC.

He ranked second on the team with 12 touchdowns (10 rushing and two receiving), a new school record for true freshmen ... During the regular season, he ranked fifth (tied) in the conference in scoring (7.2), seventh in rushing (63.5) and 13th in all-purpose yards (105.5) ... He tied for third on the squad with 16 receptions for 163 yards and two touchdowns, including a 51-yard score ... He also averaged 26.6 yards on eight kickoff returns and 7.1 yards on eight punt returns ... He led the team in rushing five times, including each of the final four regular-season games ...

Foster played in 11 games in 1998, missing most of the Oregon game and all of the contest at California with a sprained knee ... Foster wrote his name into Bruin lore by scoring all four touchdowns (three rushing and one receiving) in UCLA’s 34-17 victory over USC ... He became the first true freshman in school history to score four TDs in one game and tied the overall school record held by numerous players, including teammate Jermaine Lewis ... His four-yard receiving touchdown gave the Bruins the lead for good (7-3 in the first quarter) and his 65-yard TD, the longest run of his young career, just two plays after USC had closed to within four points, gave the Bruins a 21-10 lead with 11:15 to play in the second quarter ... On the afternoon, Foster led the team with 109 yards and three touchdowns on 15 carries and made three receptions for 18 yards and one TD...

At Miami, he led the Bruins with 79 yards on 16 carries and established a new Bruin season rushing record for freshmen ... In the Rose Bowl game against Wisconsin, he ran for 38 yards on 10 attempts ... Foster scored the first two touchdowns of the Oregon game (51-yard pass reception and a four-yard run) before spraining the MCL in his left knee in the second quarter and sitting out the rest of the contest ... The previous week, he had rushed for a career-best 118 yards and two touchdowns on 20 carries at Arizona ... It marked the first time a true freshman had rushed for over 100 yards since Durell Price rumbled for

Foster became the first true freshman in UCLA history to score four TDs in one game.

110 yards against NE Louisiana in a 1996 contest in the Rose Bowl ... It was also the highest total by a true freshman since Skip Hicks ran for 132 against Arizona State in 1993 ... In the Arizona game, Foster had five runs of over 10 yards including a 37-yard scoring run for UCLA’s first score of the game on his first attempt and a one-yard TD in the second quarter ... He had 188 all-purpose yards, including a 45-yard kickoff return (his longest) to begin the drive that gave the Bruins the lead for good ... Foster returned to the Bruin attack in the second half of the Stanford game after sitting out against California due to the knee injury ... He rambled for 51 yards on nine attempts versus the Cardinal, including an eight-yard dash for the game-winning score in the fourth quarter ...

In his debut, Foster ran seven times for 44 yards versus Texas and carried six times for 30 yards the following week at Houston ... He rushed for 77 yards against Washington State, including a 40-yard dash ... He also added 60 yards on two kickoff returns, 34 yards on five punt returns and 14 yards on two receptions for a total of 185 all-purpose yards ... On Nov. 7 at Oregon State, he scored his sixth TD on the ground to set a school record for true freshmen previously held by three players (Skip Hicks-1993, Shawn Wills-1989, Gaston Green-1984 each had five) ... The next week at Washington, he went for a team-best 73 yards on 11 carries and scored on a one-yard run early in the fourth quarter ... Despite not starting a single game, he played at least 25 snaps on six occasions, including 39 at Arizona, 34 at Miami, 30 against Washington State and Wisconsin, 29 versus USC and 28 at Washington ... He touched the ball 154 times and lost just two fumbles.

1998 Stats
	Season Rushing TCB Yds YL Net Avg TD Lg 126 719 46 673 5.3 10 65 Season Receiving No Yds Avg TD Lg 16 163 10.2 2 51 Season Kickoff Returns No Yds Avg TD Lg 8 213 26.6 0 45