Fast-Talking Yale Football Player Brings Auctioneering to Campus
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Jeff Marrs isn’t the first farmer to attend class with the sons of corporate titans at Yale University. He just might be the first licensed and practicing auctioneer.
The 6-foot-3, 270-pound guard from Garden Prairie, Illinois, has his own auction business that he runs with his siblings and father. The junior, who grew up on his family’s farm, plays on a Bulldogs football team that includes the sons of Apple Inc. Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer, Major League Baseball Vice President John McHale Jr. and U.S. Rep. Jim Moran of Virginia.