J. L. Andersen proved that there is 5-torsion in the bottom nonvanishing
homology group of the simplicial complex of graphs of degree at most two on
seven vertices. We use this result to demonstrate that there is 5-torsion also
in the bottom nonvanishing homology group of the matching complex M14 on
14 vertices. Combining our observation with results due to Bouc and to
Shareshian and Wachs, we conclude that the case n=14 is exceptional; for all
other n, the torsion subgroup of the bottom nonvanishing homology group has
exponent three or is zero. The possibility remains that there is other torsion
than 3-torsion in higher-degree homology groups of Mn when n≥13 and n=14.Comment: 11 page