[5] The Christie Cup is an inter-university competition between Liverpool, Leeds and Manchester in numerous sports since 1886.

After the Oxford and Cambridge rivalry, the Christie's Championships is the oldest inter–university competition on the English sporting calendar.

The cup was a benefaction of Richard Copley Christie, a professor at Owens College.

The armorial bearings of the Victoria University showed charges representative of the three colleges: Per pale argent and gules, a rose counterchanged, in dexter chief a terrestrial globe semée of bees Or, in sinister chief a fleece Or, in point a liverbird rising argent, beaked and membered gules holding in the beak a fish argent with the motto Olim armis nunc studiis ('Formerly by weapons, now by studies').

The arms fell into abeyance in 1904 when those of Owens College were adopted for the Victoria University of Manchester.