 Foster attempted to enter the 1908 Summer Olympics, but was prevented from doing so as Jamaica was not yet affiliated to the International Olympic Committee.He later became a noted athletics coach.Norman Manley, who would later go on to become premier of Jamaica, was an outstanding athlete at Jamaica College, winning six medals in the Jamaican schoolboy championships in 1911, including the 100 yards in 10 seconds, an island schoolboy record not broken until 1952.