James P. Flynn (23 June 1894 – 1965) was an Australian rugby union player, a state and national representative centre and half-back.
[2] Flynn was selected in the Wallabies squad for the 1912 Australia rugby union tour of Canada and the United States.
He suffered the ignominy of being sent off in the match against a Combined Vancouver-Victoria side and Howell suggests he was probably the first Australian half-back on tour to do so.
In the second Test on 1 August 1914 he had the honour of captaining the Wallaby side and at twenty years and seven months his record still stands as the youngest man to do so.
The Great War interrupted Flynn's career as rugby in Australia effectively ceased in that time.