Seven years before the construction of the Brewer Fieldhouse in Columbia, Missouri, Chester Brewer worked as head football coach and head basketball coach of University Farm.
The Brewer Fieldhouse was a multi-purpose arena located in Columbia, Missouri, and home to the University of Missouri Tigers basketball team prior to the Hearnes Center opening in 1972. 
 Named after Chester Brewer, the building opened in 1929 to expand on the existing 500 seat Rothwell Gymnasium. 
 He served as the head football coach at Albion College (18991902), Michigan Agricultural College, now Michigan State University, (19031910, 1917, 1919), the University of Missouri (19111913), and the University Farm, now the University of California, Davis, (1922), compiling a career record of 97514. 
 Brewer was also the head basketball coach at Michigan Agricultural (19031910), Missouri (19101911) and the University Farm (19221923), tallying a mark of 8436, and the head baseball coach at Michigan Agricultural (19041910, 19181920) and Missouri (1911, 19141917, 19331934), amassing a record of 148934. 
